Seaborne Globalization: 1500-1850
Theme: Mobility at sea connecting imperial territories along coasts around the world creates global space for the development of capitalist modernity based on the use of commercial wealth to finance military power to generate commercial for inland imperial expansion.
Video22 with slides: “1500-1750, from Vasco da Gama to Robert Clive.”
Video23 with slides: “1750-1850, from Seven Years War to Opium Wars.”
Reading:
Kenneth Pomeranz and Steven Topik, The World That Trade Created : Society, Culture, and the World Economy, 1400 to the Present, Routledge, 2017, (Ebook) Introduction, pp.1-6, and Chapter 5 “The Economics of Violence” pp.162-202, (online PDFs: Intro, Ch5)
Tirthankar Roy, “Origins of British India.” (OREAH). (10pp)
Kris Manjapra, Chapter 4,“Port.” In Colonialism in Global Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020, pp. 100-124. (online PDF). ,
Parthasarathi, Prasannan. Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600–1850, Cambridge University Press, 2011. Ebook, pp.1-50.
M. van Rossum, “The Dutch East India Company and Slave Trade in the Indian Ocean and Indonesian Archipelago Worlds, 1602-1795” (OREAH). (12pp)
David L. Howell,”Proto-Industrial Origins of Japanese Capitalism,” Journal of Asian Studies, 51, 2, 1992, 269-86. (online PDF)
“Aspects of Warfare in Premodern Southeast Asia.” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 46, 2, 2003, edited by Barbara Watson Andaya (Introduction 4pp)
Barbara Watson Andaya, “Women and Economic Change: The Pepper Trade in Pre-Modern Southeast Asia,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 38. 2. 1995, 165-90.
Reference:
Reference:
Johan Mathew, “Trafficking Labor,” Chapter Two in Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea, University of California Press, Oakland, California, 2016, pp. 52–81. (onine PDF)
Farhad Bishara, A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2017.
Ravi Palat, The Making of an Indian Ocean World-Economy, 1250–1650: Princes, Paddy fields, and Bazaars. New York: Palgrave, 2015.
Port cities and intruders: the Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the early modern era, Edited by M. N. Pearson, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998.
Kenneth Hall, “European Southeast Asian Encounters with Islamic Expansionism, circa 1500-1700: Comparative Case Studies of Banten, Ayutthaya, and Banjarmasin in the Wider Indian Ocean Context,” Journal of World History, 25, 23-, 2014, 229-262.
Giorgio Riello, Cotton: The Fabric that Made the Modern World. Cambridge University Press, 2013. (Ebook), Part Two pp.87-186.
Gagan Sood, India and the Islamic Heartlands: An Eighteenth-Century World of Circulation and Exchange, Cambridge University Press, 2016. (Ebook).
Piracy and Surreptitious Activities in the Malay Archipelago and Adjacent Seas, 1600-1840, edited by Y. H. Teddy Sim, Springer, 2014 (Ebook).
R.L.Barendse, Arabian Seas, 1700-1763 : The Western Indian Ocean in the Eighteenth Century, Brill, Leiden, 2009. (Ebook)
Thomas Philipp, Acre: The Rise and Fall of a Palestinian City, 1730-1831, Columbia University Press, 2002, (Ebook)
Peter Gran, Islamic roots of capitalism : Egypt, 1760-1840, Syracuse University Press 1998. Bobst DT97 .G7 1998
Cross Currents and Community Networks: The History of the Indian Ocean World, edited by Himanshu Prabha Ray and Edward Alpers, Delhi: Oxford university Press, 2007. (online PDF)
Review of Alan Mikhail, God’s Shadow: Sultan Selim, His Ottoman Empire, and the making of the modern world (New York, Norton, 2020),in New York Times. Review by S. Subrahmanyam, C. Fleischer, and C. Kafadar, “How to write fake global history.”
Assignment 8. Five-page Paper#3 due in last class.
Individual Weeks in full syllabus: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14