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Article Excerpt
A HUNDRED HORIZONS: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. By SUGATA BOSE. xii and 333 pp.; maps, ills., notes, index. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2006. $27.95 (cloth), ISBN 0674021576.
As historians increasingly move beyond the frames of national history to paint more expansive canvasses they necessarily grapple with geography. One unavoidable spatial issue is that of scale. Should one jump immediately to the global level, or can more be learned at the higher levels of resolution found in macroregional studies? If one takes the latter course, should one use the familiar units of world regions, or is more to be gained by delimiting less conventional frameworks? If one chooses to limn novel regions, one must show how they were made coherent by transregional bonds, giving conceptual weight to the spatial packaging employed.
Nowhere is this geographical turn in macrohistorical analysis more evident than in Sugata Bose's A Hundred Horizons: The Indian Ocean in the Age of Global Empire. Throughout this impressive work, Bose explores the spatial dimensions...
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