Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History, UCLA. He is the author, The East African Slave Trade, Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa, The African Diaspora: A Global Perspective; co-editor, Africa and the West. A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence.

Alpers (emer., UCLA) marshals his formidable pedagogical and authorial skills to integrate a plethora of human experiences from Eastern Africa to the South China Sea over 7,000 years... A particularly rich emphasis on the role that Muslims from Arabia and South Asia played in competition with Chinese, Gujarati, and Iranun traders in Southeast Asia... This is a valuable initiation for students to Indian Ocean studies... Highly recommended.

• Series Editors' Preface ; 1. Imagining the Indian Ocean ; 2. The Ancient Indian Ocean ; 3. Becoming an Islamic Sea ; 4. Intrusions and Transitions in the Early Modern Period ; 5. The Long Nineteenth Century ; 6. The Last Century ; Chronology ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Websites ; Index

Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History, UCLA. He is the author, The East African Slave Trade, Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa, The African Diaspora: A Global Perspective; co-editor, Africa and the West. A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence.

Alpers (emer., UCLA) marshals his formidable pedagogical and authorial skills to integrate a plethora of human experiences from Eastern Africa to the South China Sea over 7,000 years... A particularly rich emphasis on the role that Muslims from Arabia and South Asia played in competition with Chinese, Gujarati, and Iranun traders in Southeast Asia... This is a valuable initiation for students to Indian Ocean studies... Highly recommended.

• Series Editors' Preface ; 1. Imagining the Indian Ocean ; 2. The Ancient Indian Ocean ; 3. Becoming an Islamic Sea ; 4. Intrusions and Transitions in the Early Modern Period ; 5. The Long Nineteenth Century ; 6. The Last Century ; Chronology ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Websites ; Index

Edward A. Alpers is Professor of History, UCLA. He is the author, The East African Slave Trade, Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa, The African Diaspora: A Global Perspective; co-editor, Africa and the West. A Documentary History from the Slave Trade to Independence.

Alpers (emer., UCLA) marshals his formidable pedagogical and authorial skills to integrate a plethora of human experiences from Eastern Africa to the South China Sea over 7,000 years... A particularly rich emphasis on the role that Muslims from Arabia and South Asia played in competition with Chinese, Gujarati, and Iranun traders in Southeast Asia... This is a valuable initiation for students to Indian Ocean studies... Highly recommended.

• Series Editors' Preface ; 1. Imagining the Indian Ocean ; 2. The Ancient Indian Ocean ; 3. Becoming an Islamic Sea ; 4. Intrusions and Transitions in the Early Modern Period ; 5. The Long Nineteenth Century ; 6. The Last Century ; Chronology ; Notes ; Further Reading ; Websites ; Index