Currencies of the Indian Ocean World. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Steven Serels, Gwyn Campbell.
• Editors: Serels, Steven; Campbell, Gwyn
• 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.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (230 pages)
• Subjects: History; World history; Imperialism; History -- General; History -- Asia -- India & South Asia; History -- Asia -- China; History -- Africa -- General; Colonialism & imperialism; Asian history; African history; History -- World; General & world history; Asia-History; China-History; Africa, Sub-Saharan-History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030209735
• Related ISBNs: 9783030209728
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.