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A Sea of Debt: Histories of Commerce and Obligation in the Indian Ocean, c. 1850–1940

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 July 2015

Fahad Ahmad Bishara
Fahad Ahmad Bishara*
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Department of History, College of William and Mary, PO Box 8795, Williamsburg, VA 23187-8795. E-mail: fabishara@wm.edu.
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Enterprise & Society , Volume 15 , Issue 4 , December 2014 , pp. 643 - 654
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Copyright © The Author(s) 2014. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved.

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References

1. Craig Muldrew, The Economy of Obligation: The Culture of Credit and Social Relations in Early Modern England, New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1998.

2. The most recent works that have engaged with these materials and questions include Timur Kuran, The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the Middle East, Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011; Ghislaine Lydon, On Trans-Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, and Cross-Cultural Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Western Africa, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009; and Martha Mundy and Richard Saumarez-Smith, Governing Property, Making the Modern State: Law, Production, and Administration in Ottoman Syria, London: I.B. Tauris, 2007.

3. Here, I draw on Mary Poovey’s excellent work The Genres of the Credit Economy: Mediating Value in Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Britain, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

4. Representative works include Amalia D. Kessler, A Revolution in Commerce: The Parisian Merchant Court and the Rise of Commercial Society in Eighteenth Century France, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007; James Fichter, So Great a Proffit: How the East Indies Trade Transformed Anglo-American Capitalism, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2010; Patricia Seed, American Pentimento: The Invention of Indians and the Pursuit of Riches, Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 2001.