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100 1 $aHall, Richard,$d1925-1997.
245 10 $aEmpires of the monsoon :$ba history of the Indian Ocean and its invaders /$cRichard Hall.
246 30 $aHistory of the Indian Ocean and its invaders
250 $aPbk. ed.
260 $aLondon :$bHarperCollins,$c1998.
300 $axxiii, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, maps ;$c20 cm
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 513-525) and indexes.
520 1 $a"Until Vasco da Gama discovered the sea-route to the East in 1497-9 almost nothing was known in the West of the exotic cultures and wealth of the Indian Ocean and its peoples: a 16-million-square-mile sea, bordered by civilizations more ancient than those of Greece and Rome, fed by the Indus, Euphrates and many of the world's greatest rivers. For almost a thousand years after the fall of the Roman empire, the western littoral of the Indian Ocean was as much an entity as the Mediterranean, surpassing it in wealth and power. The arts and scholarship flourished in cities to which merchants travelled from all corners of the East to trade in gold, ambergris, leopard skins, ivory and slaves." "It is this civilization, and its destruction at the hands of the West, that Richard Hall, one of Britain's finest popular historians and writers on travel and exploration, recreates in this sparkling book. Empires of the Monsoon combines historical analysis with an exciting narrative to show how, from the sixteenth century onwards, the European presence changed the life of the Indian Ocean irrevocably. Then, with the insight derived from his many years in Africa, Hall charts the liberation of Africa south of the equator since the mid-nineteenth century - first from isolation, and then from a colonialism which, although short-lived, seemed at one point to have forged unbreakable bonds between Africa and Europe."--Jacket.
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776 08 $iOnline version:$aHall, Richard Seymour, 1925-$tEmpires of the monsoon.$bPbk. ed.$dLondon : HarperCollins, 1998$w(OCoLC)606166737
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