The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)

The Historian | September 22, 2004| | Copyright

The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century. By R. J. Barendse. (Armonk, NY, and London, England: M. E. Sharpe, 2002. Pp. xvi, 588. $34.95.)

To paraphrase the French Annaliste Le Roy Ladurie, there are truffle seekers and parachutists in the historical profession. The present work, a third incarnation of Barendse's 1992 Ph.D. dissertation, is a Braudelian study of the western Indian Ocean that seeks to integrate both perspectives, combining painstaking archival research in the Netherlands, Portugal, and India with grandiose theoretical ...

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