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Margins of the market : trafficking and capitalism across the Arabian Sea / Johan Mathew.
LIBRA HJ7033.5.Z5 M37 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathew, Johan, author.
- Series:
- California world history library ; 24.
- California world history library ; 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Smuggling--Arabian Sea.
- Smuggling.
- Capitalism--Arabian Sea--History--19th century.
- Capitalism.
- Capitalism--Arabian Sea--History--20th century.
- Free trade--Arabian Sea--History--19th century.
- Free trade.
- Free trade--Arabian Sea--History--20th century.
- Human smuggling--Arabian Sea.
- Human smuggling.
- Slave trade--Arabian Sea--History.
- Slave trade.
- History.
- Arabian Sea.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 248 pages ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or a perversion of free trade? Trafficking occurs thousands of times each day at borders throughout the world, yet we've come to perceive it as something quite extraordinary. How did this happen, and what role does trafficking play in capitalism? To answer these questions, Johan Mathew traces the hidden networks that operated across the Arabian Sea in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Following the entangled history of trafficking and capitalism, he explores how the Arabian Sea reveals the gaps that haunt political borders and undermine economic models. Ultimately, he shows how capitalism around the Arabian Sea was forged at the margins of the free market, where governments intervened and traffickers turned a profit."--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Commoditizing transport
- Trafficking labor
- Disarming commerce
- Neutralizing money
- Valorizing markets.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mathew, Johan, author. Margins of the market.
- ISBN:
- 9780520288546
- 0520288548
- 9780520288553
- 0520288556
- OCLC:
- 926061412
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