Sujit Sivasundaram

The Ocean at the Centre of the World (eBook, ePUB)

The History of the Indian Ocean

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This timely and urgent book is structured through twenty human enterprises/interactions that have taken place in this diverse environment - from the discovery of fossils hinting to older ages to diving for pearls, the trade of spices, the effects of pollution, the passage of enslaved people, the charting of maps and much more. Collectively they sketch out a comprehensive overview of this extraordinary human crossroads.

Not only is this body of water at the heart of much human development, it's also likely to be at the sharp end of our experience of climate change: an environment that has long been stable, an essential crossroads to global activity, is now being radically and rapidly transformed.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780008592431
• Artikelnr.: 72511627

Autorenporträt

Sujit Sivasundaram is Professor of World History and Fellow of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. He is the author of Islanded: Britain, Sri Lanka and the Bounds of an Indian Ocean Colony (2013). He is a world class historian specialising in the histories of the Pacific and Indian oceans and their islands, the history of science, race, the environment and culture.