Review: In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama, by Eric Tagliacozzo

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Book Review| May 01 2023 Review: In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama, by Eric Tagliacozzo In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama. By Eric Tagliacozzo. ( Princeton University Press, 2022. 512 pp.) Steven Ivings Steven Ivings Kyoto University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Pacific Historical Review (2023) 92 (2): 322–323. https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.322 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Steven Ivings; Review: In Asian Waters: Oceanic Worlds from Yemen to Yokohama, by Eric Tagliacozzo. Pacific Historical Review 1 May 2023; 92 (2): 322–323. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/phr.2023.92.2.322 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentPacific Historical Review Search Building on his well-received monographs Secret Trades, Porous Borders (2005) and The Longest Journey (2013), Eric Tagliacozzo’s latest ambitious work provides an eclectic history of maritime trade and interconnectivities across a vast space extending from the Persian Gulf to the seas around Japan. Though the Indian Ocean and South China Sea garner the greatest attention in this enjoyable work, the sweeping and engaging kaleidoscope of topics covered in Tagliacozzo’s work offers much to historians of the Pacific. One strength of the work is its ability to link up disparate but rich historiographies and anthropological literature on the multiple sub-regions that make up the vast geographical space covered in the book. By integrating this huge body of regional literatures that have often been isolated from one another by separate national/regional variants of area studies, Tagliacozzo provides an account of the wider connections of the Western Pacific region over the last half-millennium.... You do not currently have access to this content.