A Sea of Wealth : The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Nicholas P., Author.

Series:

California World History Library ; 33.

California World History Library ; v.33

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saʻīd bin Sulṭān, Sultan of Zanzibar, 1791-1856.

Saʻīd bin Sulṭān.

Oman--Commerce--History.

Oman.

Oman--Globalization.

Oman--Foreign relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (308 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oakland : University of California Press

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2025.

Summary:

A Sea of Wealth is a sweeping retelling of the Omani position in the Indian Ocean. Here the reign of Oman's longest-serving ruler, Saʿid bin Sultan, offers a keyhole through which we can peer to see the entangled histories of Arabia and the Gulf, South Asia, and East Africa in the Omani Empire. In centering this empire, Nicholas P. Roberts shows how Arabs, Africans, and Asians actively shaped the conditions of commercial engagement in the Western Indian Ocean, uniting the empire's domains into a single oceanic marketplace in which Europeans and Americans had to accede if they wished to succeed. Drawing upon sources in three languages from four continents, A Sea of Wealth is a vivid narrative full of colorful characters that upturns many conventional understandings of our modern world.

Contents:

Cover

Series Editors

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Note on Spelling

Acknowledgments

Maps

Prelude

1. Writing Omani History

2. The Emergence of Empire

3. Contesting the Gulf

4. Moving to Zanzibar

5. Politics of the Marketplace

6. Enslavement and Human Trafficking

7. The Omani Empire in World History

Notes

Bibliography

Index

List of Series Editors.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-520-41579-5

OCLC:

1521494513