Craig Gallagher
craig.gallagher@bc.edu
Indian Ocean, c. 1400-1900
w/ Prof. Parthasarathi
The Indian Ocean?
Chaudhuri, K. N. Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the
Rise of Islam to 1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
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Chap. 1: "Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: social, cultural, economic, and temporal
dimensions," 9-33
Das Gupta, Ashin, and M. N Pearson, eds. India and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800. Calcutta;
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Chap. 1: M. N. Pearson, “Introduction I: the Subject,” 1-24
Chap. 2: Ashin Das Gupta, “Introduction II: the Story,” 25-45
Vink, Marcus P. M. “Indian Ocean Studies and the ‘New Thalassology’.” Journal of Global
History 2, no. 1 (2007): 41–62.
The Indian Ocean before Europeans, 1100-1500
Chaudhuri. Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean. New York: 1985.
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Chap. 2: "The Rise of Islam and the pattern of pre-emporia trade in early Asia," 34-62
Das Gupta, Ashin, and M. N Pearson, eds. India and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800. Calcutta;
New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
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Chap. 3: Genevieve Bouchon and Denys Lombard, "The Indian Ocean in the Fifteenth
Century," 46-70
Chap. 4: M. N. Peason, "India and the Indian Ocean in the Sixteenth Century," 71-93
Margariti, Roxani Eleni. Aden & the Indian Ocean Trade: 150 Years in the Life of a Medieval
Arabian Port. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2007.
McPherson, Kenneth. The Indian Ocean: a History of People and the Sea. New York: Oxford
University Press, 1993.
Prange, Sebastian R. “A Trade of No Dishonor: Piracy, Commerce, and Community in the
Western Indian Ocean, Twelfth to Sixteenth Century.” American Historical Review
116, no. 5 (2011): 1269–1293.
Wink, André. Al-Hind: The Making of the Indo-Islamic World. Vols. I-III. New York: E. J.
Brill, 1991.
The Portuguese in the Indian Ocean, 1500-1650: Change or Continuity?
Biedermann, Zoltán. “Portuguese Diplomacy in Asia in the Sixteenth Century: A Preliminary
Overview.” Itinerario 29, no. 02 (2005): 13–37.
Casale, Giancarlo. The Ottoman Age of Exploration. New York: Oxford University Press,
2010.
Chaudhuri. Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean. New York: 1985.
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Chap. 3: "The Portuguese seaborne empire in the Indian Ocean," 63-79
Pearson, Michael N. Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat: The Response to the Portuguese in the
Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
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Craig Gallagher
craig.gallagher@bc.edu
Indian Ocean, c. 1400-1900
w/ Prof. Parthasarathi
Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. The Portuguese Empire in Asia, 1500-1700: a Political and Economic
History. New York: Longman, 1993.
The Dutch in the Indian Ocean, 1600-1700: Trade or Production?
Chaudhuri. Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean. New York: 1985.
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Chap IV: "The Dutch and English East India Companies and the bureaucratic form of trade in
Asia," 80-97
Parthasarathi, Prasannan, and Giorgio Riello, eds. The Spinning World: a Global History of
Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850. Pasold Studies in Textile History 16. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2009.
Chap. VII: Om Prakash, "The Dutch and the Indian Ocean Textile Trade," 145-160
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Prakash, Om. The Dutch East India Company and the Economy of Bengal, 1630-1720.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1985.
--------.. European Commercial Enterprise in Pre-Colonial India. New York: Cambridge
University Press, 1998.
Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the Age of Commerce, 1450-1680. Vol. II: Expansion and
Crisis. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1993.
The Indian Ocean Economy: On European Sea(s) or Asian Land?
Barendse, R. J. Arabian Seas, 1700-1763. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2009.
Chaudhury, Sushil, and Michel Morineau. Merchants, Companies, and Trade: Europe and
Asia in the Early Modern Era. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.
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Chap 2: Niels Steensgaard, “The Route Through Quandahar: the Significance of the Overland
Trade from India to the West in the Seventeenth Century,” 55-73.
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Chap. 6: Michel Morineau, "Eastern and Western Merchants from the Sixteenth to the
Eighteenth Centuries," 116-144
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Chap. 9: Femme S. Gaastra, “Competition or Collaboration ? Relations Between the Dutch
East India Company and Indian Merchants around 1680,” 189-201
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Chap. 13: Michel Morineau, “The Indian Challenge: Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries,”
243-275
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Chap. 16: Sushil Chaudhury, “The Asian Merchants and Companies in Bengal’s Export Trade,
circa mid-Eighteenth Century,” 300-320
Steensgaard, Niels. The Asian Trade Revolution of the Seventeenth Century: The East India
Companies and the Decline of the Caravan Trade. Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1974.
Washbrook, David. “India in the Early Modern World Economy: Modes of Production,
Reproduction and Exchange.” Journal of Global History 2, no. 1 (2007): 87–111.
The English East India Company, 1600-1757: Economics or Politics?
Chaudhuri, K. N. The English East India Company: The Study of an Early Joint-Stock
Company, 1600-1640. New York: Reprints of Economic Classics, 1965.
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Craig Gallagher
craig.gallagher@bc.edu
Indian Ocean, c. 1400-1900
w/ Prof. Parthasarathi
Stern, Philip J. The Company-State: Corporate Sovereignty and the Early Modern Foundations
of the British Empire in India. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Watson, I. Bruce. “Fortifications and the ‘Idea’ of Force in Early East India Company
Relations with India.” Past & Present 88 (1980): 70–87.
British India, 1757-1833: Trade or Taxes?
Furber, Holden. John Company at Work: a Study of European Expansion in India in the Late
Eighteenth Century. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1951.
Bowen, H. V. Revenue and Reform: The Indian Problem in British Politics, 1757-1773. New
York: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
----------. The Business of Empire: The East India Company and Imperial Britain, 1756-1833.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Marshall, P. J, and Alaine M Low, eds. The Eighteenth Century. Vol. II. 5 vols. Wm. Roger
Louis, ed. The Oxford History of the British Empire. New York: Oxford University
Press, 1998.
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Chap. 24: H.V. Bowen, "British India, 1765-1813: The Metropolitan Context," 530-551
Marshall, P. J. East Indian Fortunes: The British in Bengal in the Eighteenth Century. Oxford:
Clarendon Press, 1976.
The Indian Ocean in the Nineteenth Century
Bose, Sugata. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006.
Clarence-Smith, W. G, ed. The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth
Century. Totowa: Frank Cass, 1989.
Greenberg, Michael. British Trade and the Opening of China, 1800-42. Cambridge: University
Press, 1969.
Metcalf, Thomas R. Imperial Connections: India in the Indian Ocean Arena, 1860-1920.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007.
Parthasarathi, Prasannan, and Giorgio Riello, eds. The Spinning World: a Global History of
Cotton Textiles, 1200-1850. Pasold Studies in Textile History 16. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2009.
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Chap. VI: William Gervase Clarence-Smith, "The Production of Cotton Textiles in Early
Modern South-East Asia," 127-143
Prestholdt, Jeremy. “On the Global Repercussions of East African Consumerism.” The
American Historical Review 109, no. 3 (2004): 755–781.
Ray, Rajat. “Asian Capital in the Age of European Domination: The Rise of the Bazaar, 18001914.” Modern Asian Studies 29, no. 3 (1995): 449–554.
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