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).

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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

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