How Maritime Trade And The Indian Subcontinent Shaped The World Ice Age To Mideighth Century Nick Collins by Nick. Collins 9781526786623, 1526786621 instant download after payment.

World-wide maritime trade has been the essential driver of wealth-creation, economic progress and global human contact. Trade and exchange of ideas have been at the heart of economic, social, political, cultural and religious life and maritime international law. These claims are borne out by the history of maritime trade beginning in the Indian Ocean and connecting to Southeast Asia, Japan, the Americas, East Africa, the Middle East especially the Persian Gulf, the Mediterranean and Europe. This development pre-dates the end of the Ice Age with world-wide flooding and stimulated the establishment of land-based civilisations in the above regions with particular effect on the Greek and Roman empires and even China's 'Celestial' empire. The Indian subcontinent was the original major player in maritime trade, linking oceans and regions. Global maritime trade declined with the fall of Mediterranean empires and the 'dark age' in Europe but revived with Indian Ocean and Asian maritime networks. Shipping and trade studies are hugely practical but can be technical, legalistic and even dull for non-specialists. But this history is a broadly-based and exciting account of human interaction at multiple levels, for general readers, specialists and practitioners. It is based on huge reading and rare sources and with an attractive writing style, and full of fascinating sidelights illuminating the historical narrative - and from an author with life-long experience in international shipping.Contents:1. Philosophy and Themes2. The End of the Ice Age and the Shaping of the World3. The Third Millennium BC and Trade Networks4. Maritime Trade in the Mediterranean and European Bronze Age5. Eastern Mediterranean Breakdown6. Maritime Breakouts from the Eastern Mediterranean, Phoenicians, Greeks and Etruscans7. Clash of the Titans8. Roman Empire to Han Empire, tentative Globalisation9. Decline, Fall and the Making of Dark Age Europe10. New Foundations of Indian Ocean and Asian Maritime Trade NetworksEpilogue, Continuity and Change