Currencies of the Indian Ocean World
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 occupie...
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Μορφή: | Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο |
Γλώσσα: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
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Έκδοση: | 1st ed. 2019. |
Σειρά: | Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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Διαθέσιμο Online: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
- 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.