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Emeritus Professor Michael Pearson

Emeritus Professor Michael Pearson

Emeritus Professor
Arts, Design & Architecture
School of Humanities & Languages
E-mail
mnpearson@ozemail.com.au
  • Books | 2023
    Pearson MN, 2023, MERCHANTS AND RULERS IN GUJARAT: THE RESPONSE TO THE PORTUGUESE IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY, http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/9780520337299
    Books | 2010
    , 2010, Eyes across the water : navigating the Indian Ocean, Gupta P; Hofmeyr I; Pearson MN, (eds.), Unisa Press, Pretoria
    Books | 2010
    Pearson M, 2010, Preface
    Books | 2003
    Pearson MN, 2003, The Indian Ocean, Routledge Press, London/New York
    Books | 1999
    Pearson MN; Gupta AK, 1999, India and the Indian Ocean, 1500-1800, Oxford University Press, New Delhi
    Books | 1998
    Pearson MN, 1998, Port Cities and Intruders: the Swahili Coast, India and Portugal in the early modern era, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore/London
  • Book Chapters | 2016
    Pearson M, 2016, 'Locating garcia de orta in the port city of Goa and the Indian ocean world', in Medicine Trade and Empire Garcia De Orta S Colloquies on the Simples and Drugs of India 1563 in Context, pp. 33 - 48, http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315594729
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Pearson MN, 2012, 'Indian ocean and the Red Sea', in History of Islam in Africa, pp. 37 - 59
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Pearson MN, 2012, 'Life at sea', in Prakash O (ed.), History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civilization: The Trading World of the Indian Ocean. 1500-1800, Volume 7, Centre for Studies in Civilizations, Delhi, pp. 633 - 658
    Book Chapters | 2012
    Pearson MN, 2012, 'Religion and the Sea', in Prakash O (ed.), History of Science, Philosophy and Culture in Indian Civukuzation: The Trading World of the Indian Ocean. 1500-1800, Volume 7, Centre for Studies in Civilizations, Delhi, pp. 659 - 677, http://pearson.vrvbookshop.com/book/trading-world-indian-ocean1500-1800-om-prakash/9788131732236
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Pearson M, 2011, 'Hajj, or Pilgrimage, to Mecca', in World History Encyclopedia Volumes 1 21, pp. Vol7 - V231
    Book Chapters | 2011
    Pearson M, 2011, 'Indian Ocean Trade and the Swahili Coast', in World History Encyclopedia Volumes 1 21, pp. Vol8 - V405
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Pearson M, 2010, 'Piracy in Asian waters: Problems of definition', in Pirates Ports and Coasts in Asia Historical and Contemporary Perspectives, pp. 15 - 28
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Pearson MN, 2010, 'Connecting the Littorals: Cultural Brokers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean', in Gupta P; Hofmeyr I; Pearson M (ed.), Eyes across the water : navigating the Indian Ocean, Unisa Press, Pretoria, pp. 32 - 47
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Pearson MN, 2010, 'Introduction: The Idea of the Ocean', in Gupta P; Hofmeyr I; Pearson M (ed.), Eyes across the water : navigating the Indian Ocean, Unisa Press, Pretoria, pp. 7 - 14
    Book Chapters | 2010
    Pearson MN, 2010, 'Islamic trade, shipping, port-states and merchant communities in the Indian Ocean, seventh to sixteenth centuries', in Morgan DO; Reid A (ed.), The New Cambridge History of Islam Volume 3, The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries, CUP, Cambridge, pp. 317 - 365
    Book Chapters | 2006
    Pearson MN, 2006, 'Creating a Littoral Community: Muslim Reformers in the Early Modern Indian Ocean World', in Between the Middle Ages and Modernity Individual and Community in the Early Modern World, pp. 155 - 165
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Pearson MN, 2001, 'Asia and world precious metal flows in the early modern period', in McGuire J; Bertola P; Reeves P (ed.), Evolution of the world economy, previous metals and India, Oxford University Press, New Delhi, pp. 21 - 58
    Book Chapters | 2001
    Pearson MN, 2001, 'The Portuguese in India and the Indian Ocean: an overview of the sixteenth century', in Malekandathil P; Mohammed J (ed.), The Portuguese, Indian Ocean and European bridgeheads 1500-1800: Festschrift in honour of Prof. K.S. Mathew, Institute for Research in Social Sciences and Humanities of MESHAR, Tellicherry, Kerala, India, pp. 49 - 66
    Book Chapters | 1998
    Pearson MN, 1998, 'Indians in East Africa: the early modern period', in Politics and trade in the Indian Ocean world: essays in honour of Ashin Das Gupta, Oxford University Press, Delhi, pp. 227 - 249
  • Journal articles | 2015
    Pearson MN, 2015, 'Notes on World History and Maritime History', Asian Review of World Histories, 3, pp. 137 - 151, http://dx.doi.org/10.12773/arwh.2015.3.1.137
    Journal articles | 2012
    Pearson MN, 2012, 'Tremendous Damage or Mere Pinpricks: the costs of Piracy', Journal of Early Modern History, pp. 463 - 480
    Journal articles | 2011
    Pearson M; Worden N; Chambers C; Prasad A; Marsh N; Newell J; Bloomfield M; Woods T, 2011, 'Reviews', Wasafiri, 26, pp. 78 - 99, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02690055.2011.557554
    Journal articles | 2009
    Pearson M, 2009, 'Class, authority and gender on early-modern Indian Ocean ships: European and Asian comparisons', South African Historical Journal, 61, pp. 680 - 701, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02582470903500376
    Journal articles | 2009
    Pearson M, 2009, 'Islam, India and indigenous medicine', Metascience, 18, pp. 243 - 246, http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11016-009-9267-9
    Journal articles | 2006
    Pearson MN, 2006, 'Littoral society: The concept and the problems', Journal of World History, 17, pp. 353 - 373, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2006.0059
    Journal articles | 2004
    Pearson M, 2004, 'Brief Comments on Recent Work on the Indian Ocean', Itinerario, 28, pp. 187 - 190, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0165115300020234
    Journal articles | 2004
    Pearson MN, 2004, 'Disputed mission: Jesuit experiments and Brahmanical knowledge inseventeenth-century India', Journal of Religious History, 28, pp. 109 - 119
    Journal articles | 2004
    Pearson MN, 2004, 'From the Iranian plateau to the shores of Gujarat: The story of Parsi settlement and absorption in India', South Asia - Journal of South Asian Studies, 27, pp. 120 - 121
    Journal articles | 2004
    Pearson MN, 2004, 'From the Iranian plateau to the shores of Gujarat: The story of Parsi settlement and absorption in India', South Asia - Journal of South Asian Studies, 27, pp. 120 - 121
    Journal articles | 2003
    Pearson MN, 2003, 'Ancient Indian ports with special reference to Maharashtra', South Asia - Journal of South Asian Studies, 26, pp. 96 - 96
    Journal articles | 2003
    Pearson MN, 2003, 'Ancient Indian ports with special reference to Maharashtra', South Asia - Journal of South Asian Studies, 26, pp. 96 - 96
    Journal articles | 2003
    Pearson MN, 2003, 'Modernity and culture: From the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean.', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 62, pp. 202 - 203, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3096148
    Journal articles | 2003
    Pearson MN, 2003, 'The global world of Indian merchants, 1750-1947: Traders of Sind from Bukhara to Panama.', AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 108, pp. 164 - 165, http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/533065
    Journal articles | 2001
    Pearson MN, 2001, 'A hazardous embarkation: writing history of the Indian Ocean', Indica, pp. 145 - 152
    Journal articles | 2001
    Pearson MN, 2001, 'Christians in Asia before 1500', JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, 25, pp. 107 - 109, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000167308800024&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2001
    Pearson MN, 2001, 'Hindu medical practice in sixteenth-century Western India: evidence from Portuguese sources', Portuguese Studies, 17, pp. 100 - 113
    Journal articles | 2001
    Pearson MN, 2001, 'Renascent empire? The House of Braganza and the quest for stability in Portuguese Monsoon Asia, c.1640-1683', INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, 23, pp. 657 - 659, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000171244600027&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2001
    Pearson MN, 2001, 'The Bombay country ships, 1790-1833', SOUTH ASIA-JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, 24, pp. 245 - 246, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000174408100018&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2001
    Pearson MN, 2001, 'Trade ideology and urbanization: South India 300 BC to AD 1300.', AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 106, pp. 1338 - 1339, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2692974
    Journal articles | 2000
    Pearson MN, 2000, 'Beyond price: Pearls and pearl fishing: Origins to the age of discoveries', AMERICAN NEPTUNE, 60, pp. 320 - 321, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000172159200012&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 2000
    Pearson MN, 2000, 'The Germans, the Portuguese and India', SOUTH ASIA-JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, 23, pp. 161 - 162, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00856400008723419
    Journal articles | 2000
    Pearson MN, 2000, 'The trading world of the Tamil merchant: Evolution of merchant capitalism in the Coromandel.', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 59, pp. 473 - 475, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2658719
    Journal articles | 2000
    Pearson MN, 2000, 'World history: Ideologies, structures and identities', JOURNAL OF WORLD HISTORY, 11, pp. 350 - 353, http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/jwh.2000.0048
    Journal articles | 1999
    Pearson MN, 1999, 'The Arabian seas, 1640-1700', SOUTH ASIA-JOURNAL OF SOUTH ASIAN STUDIES, 22, pp. 125 - 129
    Journal articles | 1998
    Pearson MN, 1998, 'Early relations between the Portugese and Gujarat: a new overview', Indica, pp. 81 - 96
    Journal articles | 1996
    Pearson MN, 1996, 'First contacts between Indian and European medical systems: Goa in the sixteenth century.', Clio Medica Amsterdam Netherlands, 35, pp. 20 - 41, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004418448_005
    Journal articles | 1995
    PEARSON MN, 1995, 'DISCOVERIES, MISSIONARY EXPANSION AND ASIAN CULTURES - DESOUZA,TR', INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, 17, pp. 778 - 779
    Journal articles | 1995
    PEARSON MN, 1995, 'THE ECONOMICS OF THE GOA JESUITS, 1542-1759 - AN EXPLANATION OF THEIR RISE AND FALL - BORGES,CJ', INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, 17, pp. 778 - 779
    Journal articles | 1995
    PEARSON MN, 1995, 'TRADE AND FINANCE IN PORTUGUESE INDIA - A STUDY OF THE PORTUGUESE COUNTRY TRADE, 1770-1840 - PINTO,C', INTERNATIONAL HISTORY REVIEW, 17, pp. 778 - 779
    Journal articles | 1992
    PEARSON MN, 1992, 'TRADE AND POLITICS IN THE INDIAN-OCEAN - HISTORICAL AND CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVES - BORSA,G', INDIAN ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL HISTORY REVIEW, 29, pp. 375 - 378, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001946469202900308
    Journal articles | 1991
    PEARSON MN, 1991, 'THE POLITICAL-ECONOMY OF COMMERCE - SOUTHERN INDIA, 1500-1650 - SUBRAHMANYAM,S', JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 51, pp. 223 - 224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700038572
    Journal articles | 1990
    PEARSON MN, 1990, '2 MEDIEVAL MERCHANT GUILDS OF SOUTH-INDIA - ABRAHAM,M', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 49, pp. 953 - 954, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2058299
    Journal articles | 1990
    PEARSON MN, 1990, 'CONVERSION IN SOUTH-EAST-ASIA - EVIDENCE FROM THE PORTUGUESE RECORDS', PORTUGUESE STUDIES, 6, pp. 53 - 70, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1990GQ38800006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1988
    PEARSON MN, 1988, 'THE SURVIVAL OF EMPIRE - PORTUGUESE TRADE AND SOCIETY IN CHINA AND THE SOUTH CHINA SEA, 1630-1754 - SOUZA,GB', JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 48, pp. 201 - 202, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700004551
    Journal articles | 1987
    PEARSON MN, 1987, 'THE 1ST PORTUGUESE COLONIAL EMPIRE - NEWITT,M', JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY, 15, pp. 179 - 179, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086538708582736
    Journal articles | 1986
    PEARSON MN, 1986, 'TRADE AND CIVILIZATION IN THE INDIAN-OCEAN - AN ECONOMIC-HISTORY FROM THE RISE OF ISLAM TO 1750 - CHAUDHURI,KN', JOURNAL OF IMPERIAL AND COMMONWEALTH HISTORY, 14, pp. 114 - 114, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03086538608582714
    Journal articles | 1984
    Pearson MN, 1984, 'Recreation in Mughal India', The International Journal of the History of Sport, 1, pp. 335 - 350, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02649378408713556
    Journal articles | 1982
    PEARSON MN, 1982, 'NORTH INDIA BETWEEN EMPIRES - AWADH, THE MUGHALS, AND THE BRITISH, 1720-1801 - BARNETT,RB', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 41, pp. 611 - 612, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2055280
    Journal articles | 1982
    PEARSON MN, 1982, 'PORTUGUESE INDIA IN THE MID-17TH CENTURY - BOXER,CR', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 41, pp. 614 - 615
    Journal articles | 1982
    PEARSON MN, 1982, 'PRE-MODERN MUSLIM POLITICAL-SYSTEMS', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 102, pp. 47 - 58, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/601110
    Journal articles | 1982
    PEARSON MN, 1982, 'THE DUTCH IN WESTERN INDIA, 1601-1632 - A STUDY OF MUTUAL ACCOMMODATION - RADWAN,AB', AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW, 87, pp. 520 - 520, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1870264
    Journal articles | 1981
    PEARSON MN, 1981, 'AN EXPLORATION OF INDIA - GEOGRAPHICAL-PERSPECTIVES ON SOCIETY AND CULTURE - SOPHER,DE', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 101, pp. 382 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/602608
    Journal articles | 1981
    PEARSON MN, 1981, 'PROBLEMS OF INDIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY - DEVAHUTI', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 101, pp. 381 - 382, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/602607
    Journal articles | 1981
    PEARSON MN, 1981, 'SURAT IN THE 17TH-CENTURY - A STUDY IN URBAN HISTORY OF PRE-MODERN INDIA - GOKHALE,BG', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 40, pp. 821 - 821, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2055722
    Journal articles | 1980
    PEARSON MN, 1980, 'INDIAN MERCHANTS AND THE DECLINE OF SURAT C.1700-1750 - DASGUPTA,A', JOURNAL OF ASIAN HISTORY, 14, pp. 157 - 158, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1980MH75800007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1979
    PEARSON MN, 1979, 'A PARTICULAR ACCOUNT OF THE EUROPEAN MILITARY ADVENTURES OF HINDUSTAN, 1784-1803 - COMPTON,H', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 99, pp. 523 - 523
    Journal articles | 1979
    PEARSON MN, 1979, 'HISTORIANS AND HISTORIOGRAPHY DURING THE REIGN OF AKBAR - MUKHIA,H', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 99, pp. 523 - 523
    Journal articles | 1979
    PEARSON MN, 1979, 'THE RAJPUT REBELLION AGAINST AURANGZEB - A STUDY OF THE MUGHAL EMPIRE IN 17TH-CENTURY INDIA - HALLISSEY,RC', JOURNAL OF ASIAN HISTORY, 13, pp. 69 - 70, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1979KC97000005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1979
    PEARSON MN, 1979, 'TRADING WORLD OF ASIA AND THE ENGLISH EAST INDIA COMPANY, 1660-1760 - CHAUDHURI,KN', JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC HISTORY, 39, pp. 797 - 798, http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700093359
    Journal articles | 1977
    PEARSON MN, 1977, ''QISSA-I-GHAMGIN' OF MUNSHI-ABBAS-ALI - MISRA,SC, EDITOR', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 97, pp. 411 - 411, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/600873
    Journal articles | 1977
    PEARSON MN, 1977, 'ISLANDS AND EMPIRES - WESTERN IMPACT ON PACIFIC AND EAST-ASIA - DODGE,ES', ANNALS OF THE AMERICAN ACADEMY OF POLITICAL AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, 432, pp. 157 - 157, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1977DN66000020&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1976
    PEARSON MN, 1976, 'HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL DECCAN, 1295-1724 .2. MAINLY CULTURAL ASPECTS - SHERWANI,HK AND JOSHI,PM', JOURNAL OF ASIAN STUDIES, 35, pp. 161 - 162, https://www.webofscience.com/api/gateway?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:A1976CL09200041&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
    Journal articles | 1976
    PEARSON MN, 1976, 'SEPARATISM AMONG INDIAN MUSLIMS - THE POLITICS OF THE UNITED PROVINCES MUSLIMS, 1860-1923 - ROBINSON,F', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 96, pp. 331 - 334, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/599864
    Journal articles | 1976
    PEARSON MN, 1976, 'VISIT TO THE COURT OF SINDE - BURNES,J', JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ORIENTAL SOCIETY, 96, pp. 471 - 472, http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/599140
    Journal articles | 1972
    Pearson MN, 1972, 'Political Participation in Mughal India', Indian Economic and Social History Review, 9, pp. 113 - 131, http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/001946467200900201
    Journal articles | 1969
    Pearson MN, 1969, 'The spanish 'impact' on the philippines, 1565-1770', Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, 12, pp. 165 - 186, http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852069X00080
    Journal articles |
    PEARSON MN, 'THE INDIAN-OCEAN - EXPLORATIONS IN HISTORY, COMMERCE AND POLITICS - CHANDRA,S', PACIFIC AFFAIRS, 61, pp. 698 - 699
  • Creative Written Works | 2006
    Muecke S, 2006, Post-orientalism, The Best Australian Poems 2006, Porter D, (ed.), Black Inc