ISBN:
9781316609378
,
9781107155657
Language:
English
Pages:
ix, 279 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
,
23 cm
Series Statement:
Asian connections
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Bishara, Fahad Ahmad A Sea of Debt
Dissertation note:
Dissertation Duke University 2012
DDC:
909.0982408
Keywords:
Commerce
;
Economic history
;
Politics and government
;
Indian Ocean Region
;
History
;
Indian Ocean Region Politics and government
;
Indian Ocean Region History
;
Indian Ocean Region Commerce
;
History
;
Indian Ocean Region Economic conditions
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Hochschulschrift
;
Indischer Ozean Region, West
;
Handel
;
Geschichte 1780-1950
Abstract:
In this innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, Bishara examines the transformations of Islamic law and Islamicate commercial practices during the emergence of modern capitalism in the region. In this time of expanding commercial activity, a mélange of Arab, Indian, Swahili and Baloch merchants, planters, jurists, judges, soldiers and seamen forged the frontiers of a shared world. The interlinked worlds of trade and politics that these actors created, the shared commercial grammars and institutions that they developed and the spatial and socio-economic mobilities they engaged in endured until at least the middle of the twentieth century. This study examines the Indian Ocean from Oman to India and East Africa over an extended period of time, drawing together the histories of commerce, law and empire in a sophisticated, original and richly textured history of capitalism in the Islamic world
Abstract:
A geography of obligation -- Life and debt -- Paper routes -- Translating transactions -- Making Africa Indian -- Muslim mortgages -- Capital moves -- Unraveling obligation
Note:
Revision of the author's thesis, Duke University, 2012
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