Currencies of the Indian Ocean World | Buch

Cover: 9783030209728 | Currencies of the Indian Ocean World | Gwyn Campbell (u. a.) | Buch

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Beschreibung

This book is the first to trace the unique monetary history of the Indian Ocean World. Long-distance trade across the region was facilitated by a highly complex multi-currency system undergirded by shared ideas that transcended ethno-linguistic, religious and class divisions. Currencies also occupied key roles in local spiritual, aesthetic and affective practices. Foregrounding these tensions between the global/universalistic and the local/particularistic, the volume shows how this traditional currency system remained in place until the middle of the twentieth century, and how aspects of the system continue to inform monetary practices throughout the region. With case studies covering China, India, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, East Africa, Zanzibar, Madagascar and Mauritius from the thirteenth to the twenty-first centuries, this volume explores the central role currencies played in economic exchange as well as in establishing communal bonds, defining state power and expressing religious sentiments.

Über den Autor

Steven Serels holds a joint appointment as a Research Officer at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien at Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, USA.

Gwyn Campbell is Founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada.

Zusammenfassung

Offers a groundbreaking history of the complex multi-currency system of the Indian Ocean World

Examines the economic as well as social, political and religious roles of currencies in the Indian Ocean World, from the thirteenth century to the present

Offers case studies covering China, India, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, East Africa, Zanzibar, Madagascar, and Mauritius

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: The Indian Ocean World Currency System.- 2. Major "International" Currencies of China and Japan: The Use of Copper Coins, Silver Ingots and Paper Money.- 3. Indian Kingdoms, 1200-1500 and the Maritime Trade in Monetary Commodities.- 4. What East Africans Got for their Ivory and Slaves: The Nature, Working and Circulation of Commodity Currencies in Nineteenth-Century East Africa.- 5. Currency and Currency Problems in Imperial Madagascar, 1820-1895.- 6. Currency as Commodity, as Symbol of Sovereignty and as Subject of Legal Dispute: Henri Greffülhe and the Coinage of Zanzibar in the Late Nineteenth Century.- 7. The Circulation of Modern Currencies and the Impoverishment of the Red Sea World, 1882-2010.- 8. Gilding the Waves: Gold Smuggling and Monetary Policies around the Arabian Sea, 1939-1967.- 9. Dollar, Sovereign and Rupee: Money in Mauritius.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Inhalt:	xv 230 S. 5 s/w Illustr. 3 farbige Illustr. 230 p. 8 illus. 3 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783030209728
ISBN-10:	3030209725
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC runder Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Redaktion:	Campbell, Gwyn Serels, Steven
Herausgeber:	Steven Serels/Gwyn Campbell
Auflage:	1st ed. 2019
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Maße:	216 x 153 x 18 mm
Von/Mit:	Gwyn Campbell (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum:	04.09.2019
Gewicht:	0,476 kg

Artikel-ID: 116381319