Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- Part Two Macro-regions
- 7 Eurasia after the Mongols
- 8 Continuity and change in the Indian Ocean basin
- 9 The Americas in the age of indigenous empires
- 10 Africa in world history, 1400 to 1800
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
8 - Continuity and change in the Indian Ocean basin
from Part Two - Macro-regions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
Book contents
- The Cambridge World HistoryVOLUME VI
- The Cambridge World History
- The Cambridge World History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Maps
- Tables
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- Part One Global matrices
- Part Two Macro-regions
- 7 Eurasia after the Mongols
- 8 Continuity and change in the Indian Ocean basin
- 9 The Americas in the age of indigenous empires
- 10 Africa in world history, 1400 to 1800
- Part Three Large-scale political formations
- Part Four Crossroads regions
- Part Five Overview
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter focuses on the maritime world of the Indian Ocean and, in particular, its western and middle sections. For the imperial authorities of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the main challenge was to integrate the coasts with the political heartlands of the interior. Rivers played a key role in connecting the political capitals near the Arid Zone to the commercial hubs along the coast; the best example of this is the importance of the Ganges River. The ability of fifteenth-century empires to continue depended on their capacity to link nomadic military power to the resources of the sedentary economy and to the bustling commercial outlets at the coast. The establishment of the English and Dutch joint-stock East India Companies confirmed the rising power of the mercantile elites of the northwestern European littoral, and gave them a highly effective instrument to expand that power even further along the coastal rim of the Indian Ocean.
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