Campbell Gwyn. Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World

Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. — 394 p.This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a "world" is the central significance of the monsoon system which facilitated the early emergence of long-distance trans-IOW maritime exchange of commodities, peoples, plants, animals, technologies and ideas.- Provides a thoroughly interdisciplinary analysis of the history of economic and cultural growth in the region
- Uses environmental history as a framework for analyzing the region's development
- Includes leading experts in multiple fields, including history, political scientists, ethnographers, and economistsGwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, at McGill University, Canada. He has published widely on Indian Ocean world themes, including An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005) and David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar" (2012). He is currently completing a manuscript on Africa and the Indian Ocean world from early times to 1900.