Library resources for
The Indian Ocean in Antiquity

Selected databases

General

Google Scholar
JSTOR
Web of Science / Web of Knowledge (Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index)

Subject specific databases

ABZU: a Guide to information related to the study of the Ancient Near East
Anthropology Plus
AnthroSource
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Index Islamicus
RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies

Selected library subject guides

African Studies http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/africana/
Anthropology http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/anthropology/
Asian Studies http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/Asian/
Jewish Studies http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/plj/PLJ.html

Selected books

Reference books

The Cambridge encyclopedia of India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, and the Maldives. New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989.
DS334.9.C36 1989 Library West Reference (3rd Floor)

China. Charles W. Hayford, compiler. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio Press, c1997. [N.B.the World Bibliographical Series covers essentially every country in the world with annotated entries on scholarly sources. Many are available online].
Z3106.C465 1997 Library West Reference (3rd Floor) and via NetLibrary.

Cities of the Middle East and North Africa: a historical encyclopedia. Michael R.T. Dumper and Bruce E. Stanley, eds. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, c2007.
HT147.5 .C574 2007 LIBRARY WEST: Reference (3rd Floor)

Connectivity in antiquity: Globalization as a long-term historical process. Oakville, Conn.: Equinox Pub., 2006. Approaches to anthropological archaeology
CB311.C75 2006 LIBRARY WEST

Encyclopaedia Judaica. Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik. 2nd ed. Detroit: Macmillan Reference USA, 2007
DS102.8 .E496 2007 Library West, Judaica Library (1st Floor - Northwest Corner) Reference Books Section.

Encyclopedia of Archaeology. History and Discoveries. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-Clio, 2001. 3 v.
CC100 .E54 2001 LIBRARY WEST: Reference (3rd Floor).

Encyclopedia of Ancient Asian Civilizations. New York: Facts On File, 2004.
DS12 .H5 2004 LIBRARY WEST: Reference (3rd Floor).

Encyclopedia of Asian History. 4 v. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
DS31.E53 1988 LIBRARY WEST: Reference (3rd Floor).

Encyclopedia of India. Stanley Wolpert, ed. Detroit: Charles Scribner's Sons: Thomson Gale, c2006.
DS405 .E556 2006 LIBRARY WEST: Reference (3rd Floor) also available as e-book.

The encyclopaedia of Islam. Volumes 1-10 [electronic resource]. CD-ROM. Leiden : Brill, c2002.
DS35.53 .E53 2002 LIBRARY WEST: -- Ready Reference (3rd Floor) -- [2-Hour Loan]

Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Dordrecht ; Boston: Kluwer Academic, 1997.
Q124.8 .E53 1997 SCIENCE LIBRARY: Reference.

A historical guide to world slavery. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
HT861.H59 1998 Library West Reference (3rd Floor)

India. Ian D. Derbyshire. Rev. ed. Santa Barbara, Calif. : Clio Press, c1995. [N.B.the World Bibliographical Series covers essentially every country in the world with annotated entries on scholarly sources. Many are available online].
Z3201.G8671 1995 Library West Reference (3rd Floor) and via NetLibrary

India traders of the middle ages: documents from the Cairo Geniza "India book," part one. S. D. Goitein and Mordechai Akiva Friedman. Leiden: Brill, 2007.
On order, not yet published. Check catalog and/or new book area.

Indian Ocean. Julia J. Gotthold, compiler. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio, c1988. [N.B.the World Bibliographical Series covers essentially every country in the world with annotated entries on scholarly sources. Many are available online].
DS335.G671 1988 Library West Reference (3rd Floor) and via NetLibrary

Jewish Encyclopedia; a descriptive record of the history, religion, literature, and customs of the Jewish people from the earliest times to the present day; prepared ... under the direction of ... Cyrus Adler [and others]. New York, London, Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1901-06. 12 v.
DS102.8.J6 Library West, Judaica Library (1st Floor - Northwest Corner) Reference Books Section

Letters of medieval Jewish traders. Translated from the Arabic with introductions and notes by S. D. Goitein. [Princeton, N.J.]: Princeton University Press [1974, c1973]
DS135.L4 G6 LIBRARY WEST, Judaica Library (1st Floor - Northwest Corner)

A Mediterranean society; the Jewish communities of the Arab world as portrayed in the documents of the Cairo Geniza [by] S. D. Goitein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967-
D199.3.G58 1999 Library West, Judaica Library (1st Floor - Northwest Corner) also available as an e-book.

Medieval Islamic civilization: an encyclopedia. Josef W. Meri, editor. New York : Routledge, 2006.
DS36.85.M434 2006 Library West Reference (3rd Floor)

Minorities in the Arab world. ed. Albert Habib Hourani. New York, Oxford Univ. Press, 1947.
323.156 H841m Library West - STORAGE

Oxford Encyclopedia of Archaeology in the Near East. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 5 v.
DS56 .O9 1997 LIBRARY WEST: Reference (3rd Floor).

South Asian civilizations: a bibliographic synthesis. Maureen L.P. Patterson.Chicago: University of Chicago Press, c1981. [The 83 page "Outline of headings" provides a useful and extensive categorization of the subject matter, into which entries are grouped].
Z3185.P37 Library West Reference (3rd Floor)

Vietnam. David G. Marr. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Clio Press, c1992.
DS556.3.M371 1992 Library West Reference (3rd Floor) and via NetLibrary.

Books suggested by course instructor

Abu-Lughod, Janet L. Before European hegemony: the world system A.D. 1250-1350. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. LIBRARY WEST HC41 .A28 1989

Ballard, George A. Rulers of the Indian Ocean. Lahore: Al-Biruni, 1979. LIBRARY WEST D27 .B3x 1979

Barendse, R. J. The Arabian seas, 1640-1700. Leiden: Published with the assistance of the Research School CNWS, Leiden University and the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, 1998. LIBRARY WEST HF495 .B3x 1998

Begley, Vimala and Richard Daniel de Puma (eds.). Rome and India: the ancient sea trade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, c1991. LIBRARY WEST HF377 .R66 1991

Bose, Sugata. A hundred horizons: the Indian Ocean in the age of global empire. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. LIBRARY WEST Reserve DS340 .B65 2006

Oceans in World History Buschmann (2007) [not available in library, on order].

Campbell, Gwyn (ed.). The structure of slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia. Portland, OR: Frank Cass, 2004. LIBRARY WEST HT1430 .S67 2004

Chaudhuri, K. N. Asia before Europe : economy and civilisation of the Indian Ocean from the rise of Islam to 1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1990. LIBRARY WEST DS339 .C48 1990

-----. Trade and civilisation in the Indian Ocean: an economic history from the rise of Islam to 1750. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. LIBRARY WEST HF3939.6 .C47 1985 [substantial preview available via Google Books].

Dalby, Andrew. Dangerous tastes: the story of spices. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. SCIENCE LIBRARY TX406 .D35 2000

Das Gupta, Ashin. The world of the Indian Ocean merchant, 1500-1800: collected essays of Ashin Das Gupta. New York: Oxford University Press, c2001. LIBRARY WEST HF3785 .D374 2001

----- and M.N. Pearson (eds.). India and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987. LIBRARY WEST HF3788.I44 I53 1987

Dunn, Ross E. The adventures of Ibn Battuta, a Muslim traveler of the 14th century. Berkeley: University of California Press, c2005. LIBRARY WEST G93.I24 D86 2005

Embree, Ainslie Thomas and Stephen N. Hay (eds). Sources of Indian tradition. 2d ed. [1st ed. 1958. by William Theodore de Bary et al.]. New York: Columbia University Press, 1988. LIBRARY WEST DS423 .S64 1988

Fawaz, Leila Tarazi and C. A. Bayly (eds.). Modernity and culture: from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean. New York: Columbia University Press, c2002. LIBRARY WEST DS57 .M63 2002 and available as e-book via NetLibrary

Gascoigne, Bamber. The great Moghuls. New York: Harper & Row [1971]. ARCHITECTURE/FINE ARTS LIBRARY DS461 .G3 1971

Empires of the Monsoon Hall (1998) [not available in library, on order].

Hill, Fred James and Nicholas Awde. A history of the Islamic world. New York: Hippocrene Books, c2003. LIBRARY WEST Reserve DS35.63 .H55 2003

The Graves of Tarim Ho (2006) [not available in library, on order].

Hourani, George Fadlo. Arab seafaring in the Indian Ocean in ancient and early medieval times; 2d ed. rev. and expanded by John Carswell. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1995. LIBRARY WEST VK99 .H68 1995

Jayasuriya, Shihan de Silva and Richard Pankhurst (eds.) The African diaspora in the Indian Ocean. Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press, c2003. LIBRARY WEST Reserve DS339.3.A34 A34 2003

Kearney, Milo. The Indian Ocean in world history. New York: Routledge, 2004. LIBRARY WEST DS340 .K36 2004 and available as e-book via NetLibrary.

Keay, John. India: a history. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, c2000. LIBRARY WEST DS451 .K365 2000

Kusimba, Chapurukha Makokha. The rise and fall of Swahili states. Walnut Creek: AltaMira Press, c1999. LIBRARY WEST DT365.65 .K87 1999

Levathes, Louise. When China ruled the seas: the treasure fleet of the Dragon Throne, 1405-1433. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996. LIBRARY WEST DS753.6.C48 L48 1996

Connections across Eurasia Liu & Shaffer (2007) [not available in library, on order].

The Indian Ocean McPherson (1996) [not available in library, on order].

Imperial Connections Metcalf (2007) [not available in library, on order].

Miles, Tiya and Sharon P. Holland (eds.). Crossing waters, crossing worlds: the African diaspora in Indian country. Durham: Duke University Press, 2006. LIBRARY WEST E98.R28 C76 2006

Mitchell, Peter. African connections: an archaeological perspective on Africa and the wider world. Walnut Creek, CA: AltaMira Press, c2005. LIBRARY WEST DT13 .M58 2005

Pearson, Michael N. The Indian Ocean. New York: Routledge, 2003. LIBRARY WEST Reserve DS340 .P43 2003

-----. Port cities and intruders: the Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the early modern era. Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. LIBRARY WEST DT432 .P43 1998 and available as e-book via NetLibrary.

----- (ed.). Spices in the Indian Ocean world. Brookfield, Vt.: Variorum, c1996. LIBRARY WEST HD9210.I552 S66 1996

Popovic, Alexandre. The revolt of African slaves in Iraq in the 3rd/9th century; transl.Leon King. Princeton, N.J.: Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998. LIBRARY WEST DS76.4 .P6613 1998

Autonomous Histories, Particular Truths Sears (1993) [not available in library, on order].

Ray, Himanshu Prabha. The winds of change: Buddhism and the maritime links of early South Asia. Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1994. LIBRARY WEST Reserve VK99 .R391 1994

Reade, Julian (ed.). The Indian Ocean in antiquity. New York: Kegan Paul International in association with the British Museum, London; 1996. LIBRARY WEST DS340 .I53 1996

Reid, Anthony. Southeast Asia in the age of commerce, 1450-1680. New Haven: Yale University Press, c1988- LIBRARY WEST DS526.4 .R46 1988

Risso, Patricia. Merchants and faith: Muslim commerce and culture in the Indian Ocean. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995. LIBRARY WEST DS340 .R57 1995

Subrahmanyam, Sanjay. The Portuguese empire in Asia, 1500-1700: a political and economic history. New York: Longman, 1993. LIBRARY WEST DS33.7 .S88 1993

Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Tignor et al. (2002) [not available in library, on order].

Toussaint, Auguste. History of the Indian Ocean. June Guicharnaud, transl. [Chicago] University of Chicago Press [1966]. Request Retrieval - STORAGE 909.09667 T734hEg

Villiers, Alan J. Monsoon seas; the story of the Indian Ocean. New York, McGraw-Hill [1952]. Request Retrieval - STORAGE 950 V752m

Wink, André. Al-Hind, the making of the Indo-Islamic world. New York: E.J. Brill, 1990- LIBRARY WEST DS452 .W56 1990

Subject headings

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