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Article: The Arabian Seas: The Indian Ocean World of the Seventeenth Century.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2004
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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 formulations based on macroregional and world system analysis. The title of this study, however, is ...