Michael Pearson (historian)

Michael Naylor Pearson (1941 - 3 July 2023) was a historian and academic known for his studies on the Indian Ocean. He was a professor at University of New South Wales, Sydney.^[1][2]

Michael N. Pearson
Born	Michael Naylor Pearson 1941 (1941) Morrinsville, New Zealand
Died	3 July 2023(2023-07-03) (aged 81–82)
Occupation(s)	Historian Academic

Pearson was born in Morrinsville, New Zealand.^[3] He studied at University of Auckland and completed his doctoral studies from University of Michigan (1971).^[3]

Pearson died 3 July 2023 in Australia.^[4][5]

Books

• The Indian Ocean (2003)^[2]
• India and the Indian Ocean (1999)
• The Swahili Coast, India and Portugal in the Early Modern Era (1998)
• Pious Passengers: the Hajj in Earlier Times (1994).^[1]
• The Portuguese in India (The New Cambridge History of India I.1). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1987)^[6]
• Merchants and Rulers in Gujarat. The Response to the Portuguese in the Sixteenth Century. Berkeley: University of California Press (1976)