TY - BOOK AU - Esler,Joshua AU - Fielding,Mark TI - Indian Ocean imaginings: people, time, and space SN - 9781666922172 AV - DS339 U1 - 909.098 JOS 23/eng/20220909 PY - 2023///] CY - Lanham PB - Lexington Books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Part 1: Region, Space and Place: Social Imaginaries in the Indian Ocean World -- Imagining the Indian Ocean: Oceanic Spaces, People, and Discourses / by Mark Fielding -- Unity and Diversity and Unity in Diversity: People, Time, Space, and the Social Imaginary in the Indian Ocean (World) / by Joshua Esler -- Part 2: Diverse Identities, Communities and Histories -- Sultana: The Biography of an Indian Ocean Vessel / by Jeremy Prestholdt -- Penang and the Maritime Trade of Tamil Muslims, 1778-1800 CE / by Sundar Vadlamudi -- Towards a Periodisation of Indian Ocean Maritime History / by Peter Ridgway -- The Portuguese Catholic Tradition and its Impact on Portugal's Colonisation of East Timor: A Critical Appraisal / by Augusto Zimmermann -- Perth Undergraduate Students' Perceptions of the Relevance of History: Ramifications for the Indian Ocean / by Jackson Black -- Part 3: Island-Nations and Networks -- Shaping a New Strategic Discourse in the Indo-Pacific with Small Island Nations / by Arjun -- Indian Ocean Networks: Cable-Laying Companies and the Contingency of Empires / by Thor Kerr -- Part 4: Environment, Culture and Faith: Case Studies and Cultural Intersections -- "The sterility of the country through which they passed was beyond description or belief": Evidence of Drought in Early Colonial Sources in the Indian Ocean Zone of Southern Africa / by Matthew Hannaford -- Deltas as in between ecotones: The Sundarbans of littoral South Asia / by Debojyoti Das -- Dynamics in Indian Ocean Commerce and Culture: Cultural Pluralism in Sri Lanka / by Shihan de Silva -- Religious Syncretism: Chinese Immigration and the Development of Folk Buddhayana Buddhism on the Island of Lombok, Indonesia / by Ellianna Frame N2 - "This book is a multidisciplinary study of the Indian Ocean region, bringing together perspectives from history, defense and strategic studies, cultural and religious studies, and environmental studies. This collection examines both the continuity and change of the region, as well as its unity and diversity"-- ER -