How Maritime Trade and the Indian Subcontinent Shaped the World (Hardback)
Ice Age to Mid-Eighth Century
Imprint: Pen & Sword Maritime
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9781526786623
Published: 9th December 2021
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World-wide maritime trade has been the essential driver of wealth-creation, economic progress and global human contact. Trade and exchange of ideas have been at the heart of economic, social, political, cultural and religious life and maritime international law. These claims are borne out by the history of maritime trade beginning in the Indian Ocean and connecting to Southeast Asia, Japan, the Americas, East Africa, the Middle East especially the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean and Europe. This development pre-dates the end of the Ice Age with world-wide flooding and stimulated the establishment of land-based civilisations in the above regions with particular effect on the Greek and Roman empires and even China's 'Celestial' empire. The Indian subcontinent was the original major player in maritime trade, linking oceans and regions. Global maritime trade declined with the fall of Mediterranean empires and the 'dark age' in Europe but revived with Indian Ocean and Asian maritime networks. Shipping and trade studies are hugely practical but can be technical, legalistic and even dull for non-specialists. But this history is a broadly-based and exciting account of human interaction at multiple levels, for general readers, specialists and practitioners. It is based on huge reading and rare sources and with an attractive writing style, and full of fascinating sidelights illuminating the historical narrative - and from an author with life-long experience in international shipping.
Contents:
1.Philosophy and Themes
2. The End of the Ice Age and the Shaping of the World
3. The Third Millennium BC and Trade Networks
4. Maritime Trade in the Mediterranean and European Bronze Age
5. Eastern Mediterranean Breakdown
6. Maritime Breakouts from the Eastern Mediterranean, Phoenicians, Greeks and Etruscans
7. Clash of the Titans
8. Roman Empire to Han Empire, tentative Globalisation
9. Decline, Fall and the Making of Dark Age Europe
10. New Foundations of Indian Ocean and Asian Maritime Trade Networks
Epilogue, Continuity and Change
An unusual book, but definitely recommended.
The Naval Review
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"Book of the Month" - September 2022!
Nautilus International
'An epic tome…an interesting work ambitious in scale but accessibly written and divided into manageable chunks. It provides a fine foundation of knowledge about early maritime history and will surely encourage readers to return to the author when he brings out his two upcoming books covering later periods.'
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The Nautilus Telegraph - Sept/Oct 2022
The author is to be congratulated in bring such an interesting book which helps to start to explain why we enjoy our lifestyle today.
Arrse
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'This book is immense in breadth and detail’.
Charles Winder. The Bugle
‘Clearly a most important work. The control of the detail is remarkable… most enlightening’.
Dr Ronald Hyam
About Nick Collins
Nick Collins read history at Magdalene College Cambridge, was pressed to continue academic research and writing but chose to go into maritime trade with H Clarkson& Co, the largest company in the field with world-wide connections. He was director of of the main company and of subsidiary companies in Asia including the Far East and India, Dubai and the USA. So he has done business with many of the countries in the regions featured in the book and brings practical hands-on experience to academic research to produce a unique work.