Indian Ocean Studies Series

Series Editor

Richard B. Allen

“The importance of this field of studies has finally been recognized: the new Indian Ocean Studies Series…represents a strong move towards new studies on people with no voice, of new inter- and intra-disciplinary reconstructions and interpretations of a still under-researched area.”—Canadian Journal of African Studies

The Indian Ocean, once largely ignored by scholars, is now the focus of research that is transforming our understanding of this oceanic world’s past and present and its place in global history.

This series offers established and younger scholars from anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, political science, and sociology the opportunity to publish conceptually and methodologically innovative studies on topics such as human migration, cultural and religious diversity, trade and commerce, imperialism and colonialism, and globalization.

By encouraging interdisciplinary and comparative approaches to social, economic, political, and cultural interactions within and beyond the Indian Ocean, both in the past and the present, the series’ monographs and edited collections make significant contributions to our understanding about the nature and dynamics of regional and pan-regional change.

Inquiries about manuscript proposals should be directed to the series editor, Richard B. Allen, at [email protected].

Advisory Board Members

  • Edward A. Alpers, University of California, Los Angeles, Emeritus
  • Clare Anderson, University of Leicester
  • Fahad Ahmad Bishara, University of Virginia
  • Erik Gilbert, Arkansas State University
  • Devleena Ghosh, University of Technology Sydney
  • Hans Hägerdal, Linnaeus University
  • Pedro Machado, Indiana University Bloomington
  • Rila Mukherjee, University of Hyderabad
  • Burkhard Schnepel, Martin-Luther-University, Halle-Wittenberg, Emeritus
  • Alicia Schrikker, Leiden University
  • Julia Verne, Johannes Gutenberg University
  • Kerry Ward, Rice University