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.

• 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

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.

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.

• 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

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.

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.

• 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

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.