| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 112.4

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Comparative/World

Sugata Bose. A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2006. Pp. xii, 333. $27.95.

The Indian Ocean region has, since publication of K. N. Chaudhuri's groundbreaking Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean: An Economic History from the Rise of Islam to 1750 (1985), been the focus of a dynamic debate. Chaudhuri and scholars such as André Wink and Janet L. Abu-Lughod, adopting a Braudelian approach to the region, assert that by the end of the first millennium C.E. there arose a regular and sophisticated system of transoceanic exchange linking the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, and the Far East that they term the first "global economy." This economy was based on the monsoons, a system of biannually alternating winds and currents unique to the Indian Ocean and South China Sea that facilitated return voyages directly across the region. The debate was further advanced by Michael Pearson, who demonstrated that Africa also formed an integral part of the first global economy.

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