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Author Mathew, Johan, author.

Title Margins of the market : trafficking and capitalism across the Arabian Sea / Johan Mathew.

Publication Info. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 248 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The California World History Library ; 24
California world history library ; 24.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Commoditizing transport -- Trafficking labor -- Disarming commerce -- Neutralizing money -- Valorizing markets.
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.
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Subject Smuggling -- Arabian Sea.
Smuggling.
Arabian Sea.
Capitalism -- Arabian Sea -- History -- 19th century.
Capitalism.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Capitalism -- Arabian Sea -- History -- 20th century.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject 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.
Chronological Term 1800-1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Mathew, Johan. Margins of the market. Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] 9780520288546 (DLC) 2015046018 (OCoLC)926061412
ISBN 9780520963429 (electronic book)
0520963423 (electronic book)
9780520288546
0520288548
9780520288553
0520288556