The Persian Gulf in History

✍ Scribed by Lawrence G. Potter

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 335
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This edited collection surveys the history of the Persian Gulf from ancient times until the present day. Chapters by leading authorities summarize the internal history of the region and highlight the role outsiders, including the Portuguese, Dutch, Ottomans, British and Americans, have played there. A major theme is the unity and distinct identity of Gulf society and how the Gulf historically has been part of a cosmopolitan Indian Ocean world. Until now, an inability to conceptualize the Gulf’s history as a whole has resulted in scholarly attention being focused on small parts of it. This book will instead focus on the society of the entire Gulf littoral and emphasize the connections between the Arab and Persian coasts.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 4
List of Tables......Page 6
List of Maps and Figures......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Note on Transliteration......Page 9
Introduction......Page 10
PART I: GULF HISTORY AND SOCIETY......Page 34
1 The Archaeology and Early History of the Persian Gulf......Page 36
2 The Persian Gulf in Late Antiquity: The Sasanian Era (200–700 C.E.)......Page 66
3 The Gulf in the Early Islamic Period: The Contribution of Archaeology to Regional History......Page 80
4 The Kings of Hormuz: From the Beginning until the Arrival of the Portuguese......Page 98
5 Boom and Bust: The Port of Basra in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries......Page 114
6 The Arab Presence on the Iranian Coast of the Persian Gulf......Page 138
7 Gulf Society: An Anthropological View of the Khalijis—Their Evolution and Way of Life......Page 156
PART II: THE GULF AND THE INDIAN OCEAN......Page 170
8 The Cultural Unity of the Gulf and the Indian Ocean: A Longue Durée Historical Perspective......Page 172
9 The Persian Gulf and the Swahili Coast: A History of Acculturation over the Longue Durée......Page 182
10 India and the Gulf: Encounters from the Mid-Sixteenth to the Mid-Twentieth Centuries......Page 198
PART III: THE ROLE OF OUTSIDERS......Page 214
11 The Portuguese Presence in the Persian Gulf......Page 216
12 Dutch Relations with the Persian Gulf......Page 244
13 The Ottoman Role in the Gulf......Page 270
14 Britain and the Gulf: At the Periphery of Empire......Page 286
15 The United States and the Persian Gulf in the Twentieth Century......Page 304
Contributors......Page 320
B......Page 326
E......Page 327
I......Page 328
L......Page 330
O......Page 331
P......Page 332
R......Page 333
T......Page 334
Z......Page 335

✦ Subjects

Исторические дисциплины;История стран Азии и Африки;