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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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Serels, Steven (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Campbell, Gwyn (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
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.