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Vient de paraître :Ralph Kauz (ed.), Interaction on the Maritime Silk Road : From the Persian Gulf to the East China Sea, Wiesbaden : Harrassowitz Verlag, 2010.In the recent years, trade, cultural exchange and transfer of knowledge  in the Indian Ocean have come increasingly into the scope of various  scholarly disciplines. The previous perception that the exploitation of  this sea did only start with the European colonial expansion at the end  of the 15th century had to be abandoned: The Europeans absorbed the long  existing structures rather than creating new ones. This concept of the  Indian Ocean as a coherent space of transfer is also adopted in this  volume. Some of the articles were presented at a conference held in  Vienna, while the others were supplied independently. The contributions  are arranged around the two "poles", represented by the western and the  eastern part of the Indian Ocean, especially Iran and China, but also  other cultures and the manifold relations with the land-based Silk Road  are discussed. The time frame ranges from the 14th to the 17th century.Consulter le sommaire complet et la préface : http://www.harrassowitz-verlag.de/dzo/artikel/201/003/3771_201.pdf?t=1272014903