198 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
198 Pages
by
Routledge
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Throughout history, dominance of the Indian Ocean has been a critical factor in defining a nation's supremacy and power. It is well known that it played a major part in the success of the Portugese nation at the start of the sixteenth century. In this concise survey, Milo Kearney shows how the trading and imperial expansion offered by the Indian Ocean were exploited by many leading powers from the... Read more
List of maps, Acknowledgments, 1 Introduction, 2 The earliest leadership in Indian Ocean trade, 3 Early northern Mediterranean and Chinese influence, 4 The Arab golden age, 5 The Chinese and northern Mediterranean resurgence, 6 The first assertion of North Atlantic influence, 7 The British Raj period, 8 The Cold War period, 9 The latest turn of the wheel, Index
Biography
Milo Kearney is Professor Emertius at the University of Texas at Brownsville. His books include Boom and Bust: The Historical Cycles of Matamoros and Brownsville (1991), Border Cuates: A History of the U.S.–Mexican Twin Cities (1995), and Medieval Culture and the Mexican–American Borderlands (2001).
