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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Indian Ocean trade"”.
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The Indian Ocean trade and the Roman State
Imperial Roman trading activity within the Indian Ocean has received increasing attention from scholars during the last few decades, much of it considering the role played by the Roman state. These studies have convincingly shown that state involvement was motivated, primarily, by the lucrative …
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The East India Company in the Persian Gulf: The View from Bandar Abbas
… factory at Bandar Abbas was a nexus for Indian Ocean trade, as well as the living quarters for a small community of Europeans, whose lives and livelihoods depended on the recognition of rights granted by successive Persian Shahs in the Farman; a legal document of great influence and …
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Constructing Community: Tamil Merchant Temples in India and China, 850-1281
… Tamil language inscriptions patronized by south Indian merchants in south India and China. Between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, Indian Ocean trade was at its apex, connecting populations on European and Asian continents through complex interlocking networks. Southern India's Tamil region, …
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Rare Earth: Gemstones, Geohistory, and Commercial Geography c. 1600-1750
… establishment of direct maritime connections to Indian Ocean trade in the early modern period that European scholars were able to investigate gemstones in the places they formed. Over the course of the seventeenth century, Dutch and English East India Company networks created new opportunities …
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Resilient Apartheid survivors and their navigation of historical trauma at the Castle of Good Hope, Cape Town
… with the scholarship on the trans-Atlantic slave trade (from Africa to the Americas). However, little work is done in relation to the descendant's navigation of trauma – the resultant of the Indian Ocean trade and slave trade. The trauma related to the violent occupation of the European nations, …
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Interaction, integration, and innovation at the 17th century feira of Dambarare, northern Zimbabwe
… as points of contact between foreign and local traders. Dambarare, one of the more important feiras of the 17th century, was excavated in 1967 and the archive subsequently grew due to development activities in the region. In nearly fifty years, no-one has considered this archive as a whole, and …
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What’s in a World? Economic, political and cultural convergence across the medieval western Indian Ocean.
The study of the archaeology and history of the Indian Ocean littoral is often framed through the lens of the “Indian Ocean World”. This framework goes beyond the more traditional focus on political frontiers and land-based boundaries, conceptualising the sea as a sphere of connections, not as a …