Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World is a collection which covers a long time span and diverse areas around the ocean. Many of the essays look at the Indian Ocean before Europeans arrived, reminding the reader that there was a cohesive Indian Ocean. This collection includes empirical studies and essays focused on particular area or production. The essays cover various aspects of trade and exchange, the Indian Ocean as a world-system, East African and Chinese connections with the Indian Ocean World, and the movement of people and ideas around the ocean.

It is an excellent book, addressing critical questions in maritime history concerning its spatial substance and conceptualisation. All the chapters are heavily annotated with rich bibliographies. they rather provide a solid contribution to the rapidly growing corpus of literature on the Indian Ocean World and a creative point of departure for oceanic orientations to world history. (David Ludden, The International Journal of Maritime History, Vol. 29 (1), February, 2017)

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Michael Pearson is Emeritus Professor at University of New South Wales, Australia. He has published widely on the Indian Ocean and among his recent books are Eyes Across the Water: Navigating the Indian Ocean and The World of the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800: Studies in Economic, Social and Cultural History.

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1. Michael Pearson, 'Introduction: maritime history and the Indian Ocean World.'
2. Philippe Beaujard, 'The worlds of the Indian Ocean.'
3. Sing Chew, 'The Southeast Asian Connection in the First Eurasian World Economy, 200 BCE CE 500.'
4. Geoff Wade, ' Chinese Engagement with the Indian Ocean during the Song, Yuan and Ming Dynasties (10th-16th centuries).'
5. Leonard Andaya, 'Massoi and Kain Timur in the Birdshead Peninsula of New Guinea, the Easternmost Corner of the Indian Ocean World.'
6. M.R. Fernando, 'Continuity and Change in Maritime Trade in the Straits of Melaka in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries.'
7. Rila Mukherjee, ' Competing Spatial Networks: Kasimbazar and Chandernagore in Overland and Indian Ocean worlds.'
8. Fernando Rosa Ribeiro, 'Two Sixteenth Century Indian Ocean Intellectuals in Goa and Malabar: Orta and Zainuddin.'
9. Thomas Vernet, 'East African Travellers and Traders in the Indian Ocean: Swahili ships, Swahili Mobilities ca.1500-1800.'