Book ID: CBB581190849

A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950 (2017)

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Bishara, Fahad Ahmad (Author)


Cambridge University Press


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: ix + 279; figures, tables, bibliography, index
Language: English

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. (Worldcat)

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Authors & Contributors
Erik Grimmer-Solem
Colpan, Asli M.
Amaeshi, Kenneth
Iversen, Torben
Soskice, David
Fusaro, Maria
Concepts
Business history
Economic history
Capitalism
Commerce
Politics and government
Business enterprises
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
21st century
17th century
Early modern
Places
United States
France
Canada
Great Britain
Languedoc
Yokohama-shi (Japan)
Institutions
New York Cotton Exchange
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