This essay rethinks Pearson’s formulation of littoral society in two essays he wrote in 1985 and 2006. While the first made a case for coastal history, the second continued the theme into the littoral, the strip between land and sea. Pearson foregrounded the universality of a clearly discernible littoral culture on coastlines along and across the Indian Ocean. This translated consequently into a shared history and a common heritage across the ocean’s diverse shores. At a time when maritime historians were writing what were essentially land-based histories on ocean spaces, Pearson’s social history of the littoral over a longue duree was a significant intervention.

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重温迈克尔·皮尔森（Michael Pearson）的印度洋沿岸

这篇文章在1985年和2006年发表的两篇文章中重新思考了皮尔逊对沿海社会的表述。第一篇论述沿海历史，第二篇继续将主题延伸到沿海，陆地和海洋之间。皮尔森（Pearson）提出了在印度洋沿岸和整个印度洋沿岸清晰可辨的沿海文化的普遍性的前景。因此，这转化为海洋不同海岸的共同历史和共同遗产。在海事历史学家撰写基本上是海洋空间上的陆基历史的时代，皮尔逊在贵族职务上沿岸的社会历史是一项重大的干预。