Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plat...(展开全部)

Europe's place in history is re-assessed in this first comprehensive history of the ancient world, centering on the Indian Ocean and its role in pre-modern globalization. Philippe Beaujard presents an ambitious and comprehensive global history of the Indian Ocean world, from the earliest state formations to 1500 CE. Supported by a wealth of empirical data, full color maps, plat...(展开全部)

肯尼斯·麦克弗森（Kenneth McPherson）是澳大利亚科廷大学（Curtin University of Technology）历史系教授，保修期从事海洋史的研究与教学，主要著作有`How Best Do We Survive?': A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims，The Indian Ocean: A History of People and the Sea，Four Decades of Courage: Development of United States Air Power and The 7th Bombardment Group等。

肯尼斯·麦克弗森（Kenneth McPherson）是澳大利亚科廷大学（Curtin University of Technology）历史系教授，保修期从事海洋史的研究与教学，主要著作有`How Best Do We Survive?': A Modern Political History of the Tamil Muslims，The Indian Ocean: A History of People and the Sea，Four Decades of Courage: Development of United States Air Power and The 7th Bombardment Group等。

A single, unique document - a list of one merchant's baggage - is the starting point used to bring to life the twelfth-century Indian Ocean. Drawing connections between material culture, foodstuffs and the construction of identity, Lambourn examines notions of home and mobility at a key moment in world history.

Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site of divine manifestation, becom...(展开全部)

Sounding Islam provides a provocative account of the sonic dimensions of religion, combining perspectives from the anthropology of media and sound studies, as well as drawing on neo-phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. Using long-term ethnographic research on devotional Islam in Mauritius, Patrick Eisenlohr explores how the voice, as a site of divine manifestation, becom...(展开全部)