Week 7.
Here is a link to Video12, which is a recap of some spatial logics of the travels of Buddhism, which I want you to explore in your first 5page paper; it also includes some additional citations and information that you might find useful. (Week 7 Video below)
Oct 19-21. TRADE
Imperial Expansion and Indian Ocean Worlds: Connected Coasts and Monsoon Tropics
Theme: Monsoons form the time/space of commercial mobility and coastal territory knitted together by imperial trade expansion.
Reading:
Angela Schottenhammer, editor. Early Global Interconnectivity Across the Indian Ocean World, Volume I : Commercial Structures and Exchanges. Springer International Publishing, 2019, pp. 1-53.
Lucy Blue, et al. Connected Hinterlands: Proceedings of Red Sea Project IV: Held At the University of Southampton September 2008. Oxford, UK: BAR Publishing, 2009, Ch12. Tim Power, on Commercial Expansion in the Red Sea Region (9pp). (online PDF) Chap 13. Maya Shatzmiller, on Transcontinental Trade and Economic Growth (12pp) (online PDF).
François-Xavier Fauvelle, The Golden Rhinoceros : Histories of the African Middle Ages, Princeton University Press, 2018, Chapter One, “The Tribulations of Two Chinese in East Africa, . (PDF Online) (6 pp)
Eva-Marie Knoll, “The Maldives as an Indian Ocean Crossroads,” (OREAH) (12pp)
Chau Ju-Kua: His Work on the Chinese and Arab Trade in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Translated from the Chinese and Annotated by Friedrich Hirth and W.W. Rockhill. St.Petersburg, 1911. Introduction pp.1-39
Derek Heng “Distributive Networks, Sub-Regional Tastes and Ethnicity: the Trade in Chinese Textiles in Southeast Asia from the Tenth to the Fourteenth centuries CE,” in Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean : An Ocean of Cloth, edited by Pedro Machado, et al., Springer International Publishing AG, 2018, pp.159-179.(online PDF)
Reference:
Himanshu Prabha Ray, “Maritime Archaeology of the Indian Ocean” (OREAH) (12pp), and “History of Fishing and Sailing Communities in the Western Indian Ocean.” (OREAH) (12pp)
Jean Deloche, “Roman Trade Routes in South India.” Indian Journal of History of Science, 45,1, 2010, 33-46.
de, la Vaissière, Étienne. Sogdian Traders : A History. Brill, 2005
Philippe Beaujard, “The Birth of the Afro-Eurasian World-System,” in The Worlds of the Indian Ocean: A Global History, Cambridge University Press 2019. Pp.273-642.
Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean: An Ocean of Cloth, Edited by Pedro Machado, Sarah Fee, and Gwyn Campbell, Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
Atholl Anderson, “The Peopling of Madagascar” (OREAH). (12pp)
Primary Sources: The Periplus Maris Erythraei .
Video13 with slides (48:29): “Imperial Expansions Connect Silk Roads and Sea Trade.” (Slides only)
Assignment 5: Five Page Paper #1 Due this week: Explain the spatial logic of Buddhist travels and its territorial transformations, using specific examples. Please focus on using course material, though you can use other sources that you clear in advance with the instructor. Remember: travels of Buddhism are about much more than religion.
Individual Weeks in full syllabus: Week 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14