Abstract
Philippe Soller used to say that the beauty of conciseness is that it allows us to transmit, guiltlessly, only commonly accepted truths. I am afraid I will have to show, very concisely, how innovating and dissenter is the study of Philippe Beaujard on The Indian Ocean in Eurasian and African World-Systems before the 16th century. Philippe Beaujard is a French research director—mainly in the fields of Anthropology and History of Economical and Political Organization— for the Centre National de Recherches Scientifiques (CNRS). He has profoundly studied the Madagascan so to speak civilization and is a specialist in African matters. This particular text we are to study (published in 2005) concerns not only Africa, but the whole organization of the World in a vast World System originated in the turning of the Christian era, as well as its evolution. It is possible that you think, as Wallerstein does, that the present day "modern World System" (in Wallersteinien terms) was originated in the 16th century and is a fabulous novelty in terms of economic organization? You probably think as well—don't worry, you are not alone— that Capitalism was born in Europe, with the 13th century's Italian City-states? That we will see! And my friends, welcome to the unknown side of our world:
