In Asian WatersIn the centuries leading up to our own, the volume of traffic across Asian sea routesan area stretching from East Africa and the Middle East to Japangrew dramatically, eventually making them the busiest in the world. The result was a massive circulation of people, commodities, religion, culture, technology, and ideas. In this book, Eric Tagliacozzo chronicles how the seas and oceans of Asia have shaped the history of the largest continent for the past