Gardens, regions, worlds. The Central-European vision of the Indian Ocean

• Authors: Jan Kieniewicz

Title variants

CS

Zahrady, regiony, světy. Středoevropská vize Indického oceánu

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The basis of explanation is the Central-European researcher’s refusal to accept his own peripheral status. In systemic terms, I present the Indian Ocean as a world, assuming it was one of small-scale, market-oriented gardens with cooperative ties to other regions. It was a precapitalist and precolonial network of relations of stationary systems that did not form a relationship of domination and subordination. In this littoral-oriented borderland space, two strangers may meet in an Encounter.

Keywords

EN

social system; Encounter; pepper trade; littoral-oriented society

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český časopis historický (The Czech Historical Review)
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 121
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 425-439
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Kieniewicz

• Historický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic