The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea: Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century. Translated from the Greek and annotated by Wilfred H. Schoff, A.M., Secretary of the Commercial Museum, Philadelphia. (New York, London, Bombay, and Calcutta: Longmans, Green, and Company. 1912. Pp. 323.)

1912 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Indian Ocean

From Littoral to Ozone: On Mike Pearson’s Contributions to Indian Ocean History

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-24
Author(s):  
Edward A. Alpers
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Great Circle ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Seminal Article

In this article I examine two of Michael Pearson’s most important contributions to our understanding of Indian Ocean history: the concept of the littoral, which he first articulated in his seminal article on “Littoral society: the case for the coast” in The Great Circle 7, no. 1 (1985): 1-8, and his comment in The Indian Ocean (London and New York: Routledge, 2003, p. 9) that “I want it to have a whiff of ozone.” Accordingly, I review Pearson’s publications to see how he has written about these two notions and how they have influenced historical scholarship about the Indian Ocean.

Indian Ocean Studies and the ‘new thalassology’

2007 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 41-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markus P. M. Vink
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
First Century ◽  
Exciting Field ◽  
Sense Of Direction ◽  
Early Twenty ◽  
The Indian Ocean ◽  
Indian Ocean World ◽  
World Systems Analysis ◽  
Annales School ◽  
Ocean Studies

This article explores the past, present, and possible future directions of the ‘‘new thalassology’’ [from the ancient Greek thalassa, ‘‘sea’’] and Indian Ocean studies from its humble beginnings in the 1950s and 1960s, and the cross-fertilization between the ‘Annales’ school and world-systems analysis in the 1980s, to its – admittedly incomplete – institutionalization in the early twenty-first century. In addition, it defines the numerous, often flexible and permeable, spatial and temporal boundaries or ‘frontiers’ of the Indian Ocean world(s). A final section surveys some of the potentialities and pitfalls of Indian Ocean studies and the new thalassology, with the strengths outweighing the weaknesses. The new thalassology undoubtedly presents some daunting challenges. It is to be hoped, however, that charting some of the ‘hundred frontiers’ of the globalized, inter-regional Indian Ocean seascape provides some sense of direction for this exciting field of scholarship and helps shape the future contours of maritime-based studies

The Chronology of Roman Trade in the Indian Ocean from Augustus to Early Third Century ce

2015 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 362-418 ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Cobb
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
Second Century ◽  
First Century ◽  
Third Century ◽  
The Indian Ocean

The archaeological and numismatic evidence for Roman trade in the Indian Ocean from the Augustan annexation of Egypt up to the early third centuryceshows that the most intense period of contact and exchange was in the late first centuryce. The arguments presented here challenge two major positions, which assert either a peak during the Julio-Claudian period or a continuing intensity of contact until at least the late second centuryce.

The Periplus of the Erythraean Sea. Travel and Trade in the Indian Ocean by a Merchant of the First Century

1976 ◽  
Vol 70 (1) ◽  
pp. 58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Morton Smith ◽  
Wilfred H. Schoff ◽  
G. E. Gerini
Keyword(s):  
Indian Ocean ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Indian Ocean
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