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Johan Mathew, Mathew Johan
Margins of the Market - Trafficking and Capitalism Across the Arabian Sea
English · Hardback
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"This is a superb and vitally important book: conceptually sophisticated, imaginatively researched, and beautifully written. Johan Mathew brings into view the shifting networks of commerce around the Arabian Sea’s littoral, forged in the shadows of imperial regulation—a traffic in people, guns, and gold. This book is a breakthrough in Indian Ocean history, with huge contemporary resonance. And it is essential reading for anyone interested in the history of global capitalism."—Sunil Amrith, Harvard University
"This brilliant book draws on unique primary sources and private archives to tell vivid stories, beautifully framed and theoretically rich, about the traffic in licit and illicit goods across the Arabian Sea. Its wonderful account of the smuggling of coins, guns, and humans, and also of the secret world of price-setting, shows how such trade is the shadowy other of more mundane forms of capital accumulation."—Laleh Khalili, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
"Johan Mathew's Margins of the Market provides a valuable corrective to the prevalent idea that trafficking and smuggling operate outside capitalism. Mathew shows, in vivid detail and with wide-ranging, in-depth research, how modern empires and nations around the Arabian Sea have struggled to frame the market inside a vast world of coercive profit making—based on physical control of human beings, weapons, goods, and money—whose expansive margins in fact provide capitalism much of its lucrative, adaptive dynamism."—David Ludden, New York University
"This brilliant book draws on unique primary sources and private archives to tell vivid stories, beautifully framed and theoretically rich, about the traffic in licit and illicit goods across the Arabian Sea. Its wonderful account of the smuggling of coins, guns, and humans, and also of the secret world of price-setting, shows how such trade is the shadowy other of more mundane forms of capital accumulation."—Laleh Khalili, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
"Johan Mathew's Margins of the Market provides a valuable corrective to the prevalent idea that trafficking and smuggling operate outside capitalism. Mathew shows, in vivid detail and with wide-ranging, in-depth research, how modern empires and nations around the Arabian Sea have struggled to frame the market inside a vast world of coercive profit making—based on physical control of human beings, weapons, goods, and money—whose expansive margins in fact provide capitalism much of its lucrative, adaptive dynamism."—David Ludden, New York University
List of contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Note on Terms and Transliteration
Introduction
1. Commoditizing Transport
2. Trafficking Labor
3. Disarming Commerce
4. Neutralizing Money
5. Valorizing Markets
Conclusion
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Note on Terms and Transliteration
Introduction
1. Commoditizing Transport
2. Trafficking Labor
3. Disarming Commerce
4. Neutralizing Money
5. Valorizing Markets
Conclusion
Abbreviations Used in Notes
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the author
Johan Mathew is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey.
Summary
What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the perversion of free trade? Following the entangled history of trafficking and capitalism, the author explores how the Arabian Sea reveals the gaps that haunt political borders and undermine economic models.
Additional text
"This remarkable book combines rare conceptual imagination with rigorous and empirical scholarship. It is wonderfully written, with all the makings of a classic."
Product details
| Authors | Johan Mathew, Mathew Johan |
| Publisher | University Of California Press |
| Languages | English |
| Product format | Hardback |
| Released | 30.06.2016 |
| EAN | 9780520288546 |
| ISBN | 978-0-520-28854-6 |
| No. of pages | 272 |
| Series |
California World History Libra California World History Library |
| Subjects |
Non-fiction book
> History
> Miscellaneous
Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / International / General, 20th Century, India, Middle East, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, Asian History, International Trade, International trade and commerce, HISTORY / Asia / South / India |
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