Early Global Interconnectivity across the Indian Ocean World, Volume II

Angela Schottenhammer is Professor of Non-European History at the University of Salzburg, Austria, and Research Director and Adjunct Professor at the Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Canada.

1. Introduction.- I. Religions in the Indian Ocean World.- 2. Buddhism and Maritime Crossings.- 3. The Transmission of Vaisnavism across the Bay of Bengal: Trade Networks and State Formation in Early Historic Southeast Asia.- 4. Religion and Early Trade in the Western Indian Ocean: Ideology and Knowledge Exchanges across the Indian Ocean World.- 5. Islam across the Indian Ocean to 1500 CE.- II. Shipbuilding Technologies and Transportation.- 6. Shipping of the Indian Ocean World.- 7. Cross-regional and Chronological Perspectives on East Asian Seafaring and Shipbuilding.- 8. Towards a Hybrid Seagoing Ship: The Transfer and Exchange of Maritime Knowhow and Shipbuilding Technology between Holland and Japan before the Opening of Japan (1853).- III. Transfer of Knowledge and Technologies.- 9. Mongol Empire and Its Impact on Chinese Porcelains.- 10. Eurasia, Medicine and Trade: Arabic Medicine in East Asia: How it came to Be There and how it was Supported, Including Possible Indian Ocean Connections for the Supply of Medicinals.- 11. Mules in the Indian Ocean World: Breeding and Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780s to 1918.