Currencies of the Indian Ocean World

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Serels, Steven (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Campbell, Gwyn (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
• Subjects: World history.; Imperialism.; Asia-History.; China-History.; Africa, Sub-Saharan-History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of South Asia.; History of China.; History of Sub-Saharan Africa.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 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.