The rise and development of the Indian Ocean world global economy

Gwyn Campbell: Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, will present this talk.

 The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) presents a talk by Gwyn Campbell, Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University. Eurocentric perspectives currently dominate interpretations of the history of extra-European regions.

Campbell will argue that conventional perspectives and paradigms need to be discarded in order to understand the history of the macro-region known as the Indian Ocean World, where it is becoming increasingly clear that a “global” economy emerged over 1500 years before the so-called European “voyages of discovery.”

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