| A Sea of Debt: Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 Contributor(s): Bishara, Fahad Ahmad (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107155657 ISBN-13: 9781107155657 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Asia - India & South Asia - History | Middle East - General - History | Africa - East |
| Dewey: 909.098 |
| LCCN: 2017275128 |
| Series: Asian Connections |
| Physical Information: 0.81" H x 6.15" W x 9.41" (1.19 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Indian - Cultural Region - Middle East - Chronological Period - 18th Century - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Chronological Period - 20th Century - Cultural Region - East Africa |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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 m lange 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 major 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bishara, Fahad Ahmad: - Fahad Ahmad Bishara is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in History from Duke University, North Carolina in 2012 and holds an M.A. in Arab Gulf Studies from the University of Exeter. His research, in the fields of legal history and the history of capitalism, has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. He was also previously a Prize Fellow in Economics, History and Politics at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, Massachusetts. |