TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bishara, Fahad Ahmad
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017//
TI  - sea of debt: law and economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950
T3  - Asian connections
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Commerce
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Indian Ocean Region
KW  - History
KW  - Economic conditions
AB  - 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
SN  - 9781316609378
LA  - English
N1  - Fahad Ahmad Bishara, University of Virginia
ID  - 883626276
ER  -