Editors:
- Offers a groundbreaking history of the complex multi-currency system of the Indian Ocean World
- Examines the economic as well as social, political and religious roles of currencies in the Indian Ocean World, from the thirteenth century to the present
- Offers case studies covering China, India, the Arabian Sea, the Red Sea, East Africa, Zanzibar, Madagascar, and Mauritius
Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
Keywords
- monetary history
- multi-currency system
- Indian Ocean World economy
- mediums of exchange
- Indian Ocean World trade
- Indian Ocean World development
- circulation of goods in the Indian Ocean World
- early modern monetary systems
- early modern currencies
- Asian currencies
- commodity currencies
- East African trade
- imperial Madagascar
- structural poverty
- Red Sea littoral
- colonial Mauritius
- Sterling Area
- Arabian Sea
Editors and Affiliations
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Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Halle, Germany
Steven Serels
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Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
Gwyn Campbell
About the editors
Gwyn Campbell is Founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Currencies of the Indian Ocean World
Editors: Steven Serels, Gwyn Campbell
Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20973-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20972-8Published: 04 September 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-20975-9Published: 04 September 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-20973-5Published: 24 August 2019
Series ISSN: 2730-9703
Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 230
Number of Illustrations: 5 b/w illustrations, 3 illustrations in colour
Topics: World History, Global and Transnational History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of South Asia, History of China, History of Sub-Saharan Africa