A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a
vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years,
powerfully shaping the modern world In the centuries leading up to
our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes-an area
stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan-grew
dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The
result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion,
culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo
chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia have shaped the history
of the largest continent for the past half millennium, leaving an
indelible mark on the modern world in the process. Paying special
attention to migration, trade, the environment, and cities, In
Asian Waters examines the long history of contact between China and
East Africa, the spread of Hinduism and Buddhism across the Bay of
Bengal, and the intertwined histories of Islam and Christianity in
the Philippines. The book illustrates how India became central to
the spice trade, how the Indian Ocean became a "British lake"
between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries, and how
lighthouses and sea mapping played important roles in imperialism.
The volume ends by asking what may happen if China comes to rule
the waves of Asia, as Britain once did. A novel account showing how
Asian history can be seen as a whole when seen from the water, In
Asian Waters presents a voyage into a past that is still alive in
the present.
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