Maritime Trade History
Nick CollinsThe history they got wrong. Essays on maritime trade, ancient India, and the decisions that made and destroyed civilisations. By Nick Collins - Cambridge historian, forty years in shipping.
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Mesopotamia Was Never the Cradle of Civilisation. India Was.
Note: this is an expanded version of an essay previously published on Firstpost.
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I spent 40 years in the international shipping industry, in London, Tokyo, Singapore and Dubai. When I decided to write a book on the hi...
Bombay: The City That Commerce Built
In 1661, Portugal gave England an island off the west coast of India as part of the dowry of Catherine of Braganza when marrying Charles II. He was not particularly grateful. The island had poor soil, a malarial climate, no significant hint...
Why Hormuz Has Always Mattered
The Strait of Hormuz from space. Twenty-one nautical miles of water between Iran and Oman through which roughly twenty per cent of global oil consumption is shipped. NASA Earth Observatory, public domain. The strait has been a commercial ch...
Why India Lost the Ocean
Surat harbour (Rijksmuseum anonymous, late 17th century). The port of Surat, late seventeenth century. At its height the city was home to merchants from across the known world: Hindu, Jain, Muslim, Armenian, Jewish, Persian, Dutch and Engli...
Archaeology's Forgotten Wonders: Yemen's Great Marib Dam and the Aden Tanks
The downgrading of India’s thousands of years of importance in world history, only slowly being rectified, has had other detrimental consequences. Historians of the Phoenicians concentrate on the Mediterranean, rarely if ever on the Red Sea...
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