A Sea of Debt
：Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950
( Asian Connections )
Publication subTitle ：Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780–1950
Publication series ：Asian Connections
Author： Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Publisher： Cambridge University Press
Publication year： 2017
E-ISBN: 9781108327176
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9781107155657
Subject： K10 History
Keyword： 亚洲史
Language： ENG
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A Sea of Debt
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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 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.
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