Gwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair and founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Montréal. He served as an academic consultant for the South African Government in the run-up to the formation of an Indian Ocean regional association in 1997 and has published widely on Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world, including David Griffiths and the Missionary 'History of Madagascar' (2012) and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895 (Cambridge, 2005).

'Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900 is a path-breaking work that integrates Africa into the history of the Indian Ocean world (IOW) in innovative and unusual ways. In its sweep, it offers us one of the most compelling narratives of environmental and social dynamics that underpinned the making of a macro-region and of Africa's dynamic relationship with it. In its methodology, it makes full use of environmental history to define and delineate the articulation of the IOW. Moreover, in its analytical focus, it alters conventional understandings of the history of the IOW, too often seen in terms of South Asian centrality or of European hegemony. The volume effectively interrogates existing modes of periodization, excavates the nitty-gritty of human-environmental interactions in the region and takes a fresh look at phenomena such as slavery and colonisation from a predominantly African perspective.' Lakshmi Subramaniam, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes

• 1. Introduction; 2. Africa in the making of an IOW global economy; 3. Indian Ocean Africa in the first great upswing in the Indian Ocean world global economy, 300 BCE to 300 CE; 4. Economic instability, c.300 to 900 CE; 5. The second great boom in the IOW global economy c.850 to 1250 and its Impact in Northern IOA; 6. Southern IOA and the second upsurge in the IOW global economy; 7. Uncertainties and European intrusion: the IOW global economy, 1300 to 1830; 8. The European impact in Indian Ocean Africa, 1500 to 1830; 9. The international economy and Indian Ocean Africa; 10. Indigenous modernisation in Indian Ocean Africa: Egypt, Imerina, and Ethiopia; 11. The scramble for Indian Ocean Africa; 12. Africa and slavery in the Indian Ocean world.

Gwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair and founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Montréal. He served as an academic consultant for the South African Government in the run-up to the formation of an Indian Ocean regional association in 1997 and has published widely on Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world, including David Griffiths and the Missionary 'History of Madagascar' (2012) and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895 (Cambridge, 2005).

'Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900 is a path-breaking work that integrates Africa into the history of the Indian Ocean world (IOW) in innovative and unusual ways. In its sweep, it offers us one of the most compelling narratives of environmental and social dynamics that underpinned the making of a macro-region and of Africa's dynamic relationship with it. In its methodology, it makes full use of environmental history to define and delineate the articulation of the IOW. Moreover, in its analytical focus, it alters conventional understandings of the history of the IOW, too often seen in terms of South Asian centrality or of European hegemony. The volume effectively interrogates existing modes of periodization, excavates the nitty-gritty of human-environmental interactions in the region and takes a fresh look at phenomena such as slavery and colonisation from a predominantly African perspective.' Lakshmi Subramaniam, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes

• 1. Introduction; 2. Africa in the making of an IOW global economy; 3. Indian Ocean Africa in the first great upswing in the Indian Ocean world global economy, 300 BCE to 300 CE; 4. Economic instability, c.300 to 900 CE; 5. The second great boom in the IOW global economy c.850 to 1250 and its Impact in Northern IOA; 6. Southern IOA and the second upsurge in the IOW global economy; 7. Uncertainties and European intrusion: the IOW global economy, 1300 to 1830; 8. The European impact in Indian Ocean Africa, 1500 to 1830; 9. The international economy and Indian Ocean Africa; 10. Indigenous modernisation in Indian Ocean Africa: Egypt, Imerina, and Ethiopia; 11. The scramble for Indian Ocean Africa; 12. Africa and slavery in the Indian Ocean world.

Gwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair and founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Montréal. He served as an academic consultant for the South African Government in the run-up to the formation of an Indian Ocean regional association in 1997 and has published widely on Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world, including David Griffiths and the Missionary 'History of Madagascar' (2012) and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895 (Cambridge, 2005).

'Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900 is a path-breaking work that integrates Africa into the history of the Indian Ocean world (IOW) in innovative and unusual ways. In its sweep, it offers us one of the most compelling narratives of environmental and social dynamics that underpinned the making of a macro-region and of Africa's dynamic relationship with it. In its methodology, it makes full use of environmental history to define and delineate the articulation of the IOW. Moreover, in its analytical focus, it alters conventional understandings of the history of the IOW, too often seen in terms of South Asian centrality or of European hegemony. The volume effectively interrogates existing modes of periodization, excavates the nitty-gritty of human-environmental interactions in the region and takes a fresh look at phenomena such as slavery and colonisation from a predominantly African perspective.' Lakshmi Subramaniam, Institute of Advanced Studies, Nantes

• 1. Introduction; 2. Africa in the making of an IOW global economy; 3. Indian Ocean Africa in the first great upswing in the Indian Ocean world global economy, 300 BCE to 300 CE; 4. Economic instability, c.300 to 900 CE; 5. The second great boom in the IOW global economy c.850 to 1250 and its Impact in Northern IOA; 6. Southern IOA and the second upsurge in the IOW global economy; 7. Uncertainties and European intrusion: the IOW global economy, 1300 to 1830; 8. The European impact in Indian Ocean Africa, 1500 to 1830; 9. The international economy and Indian Ocean Africa; 10. Indigenous modernisation in Indian Ocean Africa: Egypt, Imerina, and Ethiopia; 11. The scramble for Indian Ocean Africa; 12. Africa and slavery in the Indian Ocean world.