A sea of debt : law and economic life in the western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 /

A sea of debt : law and economic life in the western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 /

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Author / Creator:	Bishara, Fahad Ahmad, author.
Imprint:	Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
Description:	ix, 279 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Asian connections Asian connections (Series)
Subject:	Commerce. Economic history. Politics and government. Indian Ocean Region -- History. Indian Ocean Region -- Commerce -- History. Indian Ocean Region -- Economic conditions. Indian Ocean Region -- Politics and government. Indian Ocean Region. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11028956

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ISBN:	1316609375 9781316609378 1107155657 9781107155657
Notes:	Revision of the author's thesis, Duke University, 2012. Includes bibliographical references (pages 258 274) and index.
Summary:	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.

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Call Number:	DS340 .B57 2017
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