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Margins of the Market : Trafficking and Capitalism across the Arabian Sea / Johan Mathew.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mathew, Johan, Author.
- Series:
- California world history library ; 24.
- California World History Library ; 24
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slave trade--Arabian Sea--History.
- Slave trade.
- Human smuggling--Arabian Sea.
- Human smuggling.
- Free trade--Arabian Sea--History--20th century.
- Free trade.
- Free trade--Arabian Sea--History--19th century.
- Capitalism--Arabian Sea--History--20th century.
- Capitalism.
- Capitalism--Arabian Sea--History--19th century.
- Smuggling--Arabian Sea.
- Smuggling.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2016]
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- Summary:
- What is the relationship between trafficking and free trade? Is trafficking the perfection or the perversion of free trade? Trafficking occurs thousands of times each day at borders throughout the world, yet we have 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 was forged at the margins of the free market, where governments intervened, and traffickers turned a profit.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- NOTE ON TERMS AND TRANSLITERATION
- Introduction
- ONE. Commoditizing Transport
- TWO. Trafficking Labor
- THREE. Disarming Commerce
- FOUR. Neutralizing Money
- FIVE. Valorizing Markets
- Conclusion
- ABBREVIATIONS USED IN NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- THE CALIFORNIA WORLD HSITORY LIBRARY
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)
- ISBN:
- 9780520963429
- 0520963423
- OCLC:
- 930875526
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