... This chapter focuses on the geography of the Indian Ocean. It introduces teachers and students to the monsoon regime of seasonal winds that came to dominate both the history of sailing and connections across its waters. It discusses the history of map-making and the importance of knowledge...

... The study of commodities and commodity chains in the Indian Ocean World enables students and teachers to see parallels with other world regions and other commodities. This chapter identifies commodities that dominated Indian Ocean trade over time, such as ivory, gold, cowry shells, horses...

... The coda turns to the mystery at the heart of this book—that we do not know the maritime origins of the 1972 dockworkers strike pivotal to the proliferating grassroots struggles until apartheid's end. Thinking from “Black Atlantic to Indian Ocean” helps us revise our understanding...

..., sea, and siltscapes to meet rising seas. Thinking from the Indian Ocean may re- and de-orient knowledge about how to read oceans and their waves. Southern Hemisphere Bay of Bengal monsoons cyclones sea level rise ...

... Indentured Indians Indian Ocean Agnes Sam Suicide Khoikhoi ...

...Global Themes The study of commodities and commodity chains in the Indian Ocean World enables students and teachers to see parallels with other world regions and other commodities. This chapter identifies commodities that dominated Indian Ocean trade over time, such as ivory, gold, cowry...

... The history of disease and environment in the Indian Ocean world links the region to broader world histories and offers ways to better understand the region on its own terms. This chapter addresses teaching the histories of diseases such as smallpox, cholera, and malaria that were endemic...

... dispossession commons settlements of memory forgeries of memory Indian Ocean ...

... Indian Ocean colonial racialization Asian racialization Asian capitalism indenture ...

...Foundations and Sources This chapter focuses on the geography of the Indian Ocean. It introduces teachers and students to the monsoon regime of seasonal winds that came to dominate both the history of sailing and connections across its waters. It discusses the history of map-making...

... This chapter frames empires in the Indian Ocean from the rise of Srivijaya’s maritime empire in the first millennium of the common era through European imperialism of the early modern period and up to postcolonial challenges of regional cooperation and big power ambitions today. More broadly...

... Human mobility within the Indian Ocean remains one of the most distinctive characteristics of this region, from its deep history to the present. Monsoon winds were only one of many factors that made mobility possible, and people moved for many reasons, like pilgrimage (such as the hajj), trade...

... transnational migration citizenship migrant workers domestic work sector Indian Ocean/ Kuwait / Arabian Peninsula / Persian Gulf ...

... This chapter adds the Indian Ocean to studies of the slavery. It complicates postapartheid portrayals of the origins of South African Indians by comparing indenture with the enslavement of Indians in the Cape and the indenture of the indigenous Khoikhoi some one hundred years earlier. I...

... To appreciate the richness of the Indian Ocean World, students and teachers must go beyond the kinds of written sources that are familiar to historians. This chapter introduces how the study of archaeology, architecture, art, music and dance, oral histories, and popular religious beliefs can...