Currencies of the Indian Ocean World

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
 Introduction: The Indian Ocean World Currency System  (Steven Serels)....Pages 1-15
 Major “International” Currencies of China and Japan: The Use of Copper Coins, Silver Ingots and Paper Money  (Angela Schottenhammer)....Pages 17-48
 Indian Kingdoms 1200–1500 and the Maritime Trade in Monetary Commodities  (John S. Deyell)....Pages 49-69
 What East Africans Got for Their Ivory and Slaves: The Nature, Working and Circulation of Commodity Currencies in Nineteenth-Century East Africa  (Karin Pallaver)....Pages 71-92
 Currency and Currency Problems in Imperial Madagascar, 1820–1895  (Gwyn Campbell)....Pages 93-112
 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  (Catherine Eagleton)....Pages 113-140
 The Circulation of Modern Currencies and the Impoverishment of the Red Sea World, 1882–2010  (Steven Serels)....Pages 141-164
 Gilding the Waves: Gold Smuggling and Monetary Policies Around the Arabian Sea, 1939–1967  (Johan Mathew)....Pages 165-184
 Dollar, Sovereign and Rupee: Money in Mauritius  (Amenah Jahangeer Chojoo, Gorah Beebeejaun)....Pages 185-196
Back Matter ....Pages 197-230