Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II: Exchange of Ideas, Religions, and Technologies

Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II
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	Preface and Acknowledgements
	Contents
	Notes on Contributors
	List of Figures
	List of Tables
	Chapter 1 Introduction
	Part I Religions in the Indian Ocean World
	Chapter 2 Buddhism and the Maritime Crossings
		The Maritime “Silk Route”
		Buddhism and Trade
		Maritime Buddhism
		The South Asia–China Networks
		Sri Lanka and the Bay of Bengal Networks
		Conclusion
	Chapter 3 The Transmission of Vaiṣṇavism Across the Bay of Bengal: Trade Networks and State Formation in Early Historic Southeast Asia
	Chapter 4 Religion and Early Trade in the Western Indian Ocean: Ideology and Knowledge Exchanges Across the Indian Ocean World
		Merchant Networks in Early History
		Religion and Identity
		Why Trade and Religion
		Religion, Place and Portability
		Trade and Religion in the Western Indian Ocean
		Internal Cohesion and External Integration
	Chapter 5 Islam Across the Indian Ocean to 1500 CE
		The Middle East to South Asia
			Introduction
			Islam in Coastal and Southern India
				Gujarat
				Malabar
				Sri Lanka
				Coromandel Coast
				Religious Conversion
				Networks
		Southeast Asia to China
			Southeast Asia
				Conversions
				Networks
			South China
				Conversion
				Networks
	Part II Shipbuilding Technologies and Transportation
	Chapter 6 Shipping of the Indian Ocean World
		The Arabian Sea Tradition
			Geographic Profile
			Historical Profile
			Main Distinguishing Features of the Arabian Sea Tradition
			Changes to and Replacement of Sewn-Plank Construction
			Iconography
			Change of Sail and Rigging in the Iconography
			Shipwreck Archaeology
			Structural Performance of Arabian Sea Sewn-Plank Construction
		Other Indian Traditions
			Geographic Profile
			Historical Profile
			Early Iconography
			Archaeology
			Ethnographic Evidence of South and East Coast Indian Shipbuilding Tradition
		The Swahili Tradition
			Geographic Profile
			Historical Profile
			Principal Characteristics
		Southeast Asia and the Maldives
			Southeast Asia
				Geographic Profile
				Historical Profile
				Archaeology
				Iconography
			The Maldives
				Geographic Profile
				Historical Profile
	Chapter 7 Cross-Regional and -Chronological Perspectives on East Asian Seafaring and Shipbuilding
		Introduction
		From Early Seaborne Commodity Transport to the Emergence of the “Maritime Ceramic Route”
			Indian Ocean Ship Voyages to South China
			Southeast Asian Seafarers’ Ships in the South China Sea
		Fastenings and the Yellow Sea Shipbuilding Traditions
			Iron Use in Shipbuilding in China
			Korean Peninsula Shipbuilding Traditions and Their Influence
			A New Perspective on the Linear Development Theory of Japanese Shipbuilding
		East China Sea Shipbuilding Traditions
			Excavated Song East China Sea Traders
			Watercraft in Naval Campaigns and in Cross-Regional Trade During the Mongol Reign in China
			Shinan Ship—A Merchant Ship of the Yuan Period
		New Directions for Cross-Regional Perspectives
			Encounter of the East China Sea and South China Sea Shipbuilding Technologies
		Conclusion
	Chapter 8 Towards a Hybrid Seagoing Ship: The Transfer and Exchange of Maritime Know-How and Shipbuilding Technology Between Holland and Japan Before the Opening of Japan (1853)
	Part III Transfer of Knowledge and Technologies
	Chapter 9 Mongol Empire and Its Impact on Chinese Porcelains
	Chapter 10 Eurasia, Medicine and Trade: Arabic Medicine in East Asia—How It Came to Be There and How It Was Supported, Including Possible Indian Ocean Connections for the Supply of Medicinals
		Arabic Medicine
		Origins of Arabic Medicine in China
		Medicinals
	Chapter 11 Mules in the Indian Ocean World: Breeding and Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780s to 1918
		A Neglected Commodity
		Settler Africa: From Mules to Zebrules
		Ethiopia: A Christian Affair
		The Middle East: A Pastoralist Occupation
		South Asia: Breeding Under the Aegis of the Colonial State
		Australia: A Missed Opportunity
		Imports from Beyond the Indian Ocean
		Plantation Markets: The Mascarenes
		Agro-Mineral Economies: Australia and South Africa
		Military Markets: Indian Hegemony
		Conclusion
	Bibliography
	Name Index
	Place Index
	Subject Index