Fahad Ahmad Bishara

A Sea of Debt

Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950

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Produktbeschreibung

An innovative legal history of economic life in the Western Indian Ocean, charting the emergence of a trans-oceanic contractual culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 156mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781107155657
• ISBN-10: 1107155657
• Artikelnr.: 47864808

Autorenporträt

Fahad Ahmad Bishara is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. in History from Duke University, North Carolina in 2012 and holds an M.A. in Arab Gulf Studies from the University of Exeter. His research, in the fields of legal history and the history of capitalism, has been supported by the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies. He was also previously a Prize Fellow in Economics, History and Politics at the Center for History and Economics at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue
1. Life and debt
2. Inscribing obligation
3. Paper routes
Interlude
4. Translating transactions
5. Making Africa Indian
6. Muslim mortgages
7. Capital moves
8. Unravelling obligation
Epilogue.