In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama

by Eric Tagliacozzo

A sweeping account of how the sea routes of Asia have transformed a vast expanse of the globe over the past five hundred years, powerfully shaping the modern world

In the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routes--an area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japan--grew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691146829
• ISBN13: 9780691146829
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.4"