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Contents
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- The Maritime Silk Road: An Introduction -- Global Connectivities -- 1 Spaces, Places and Things: The Spatial Dimension of Early Indian Ocean Exchange -- 2 Open Space and Flexible Borders: Theorizing Maritime Space through Premodern Sino-Islamic Connections -- 3 From Regional to Global: Early Glass and the Development of the Maritime Silk Road -- Regional Nodes -- 4 Archaeological Evidence of Shipping and Shipbuilding Along The Maritime Silk Road -- 5 Networks and Cultural Mapping of South Asian Maritime Trade -- 6 Southern Africa and the Indian Ocean World: Relocating Agency from the "Center" to the "Periphery" and from the Maritime Silk Road to the Maritime Ivory Route -- Localities -- 7 Chinese Ceramics on the Maritime Silk Road: The Importance of Context -- 8 Urban Demographics along the Asian Maritime Silk Road: Archaeological Small Finds and Settlement Patterns at Premodern Port-Settlements of the Malay Region -- 9 Indian Ocean Trade through Buddhist Iconographies -- Contributors -- Index