Currencies of the Indian Ocean World

Steven Serels holds a joint appointment as a Research Officer at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien at Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University’s Center for Middle Eastern Studies, USA.Gwyn Campbell is Founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada.

• 1. Introduction: The Indian Ocean World Currency System.- 2. Major "International" Currencies of China and Japan: The Use of Copper Coins, Silver Ingots and Paper Money.- 3. Indian Kingdoms, 1200–1500 and the Maritime Trade in Monetary Commodities.- 4. What East Africans Got for their Ivory and Slaves: The Nature, Working and Circulation of Commodity Currencies in Nineteenth-Century East Africa.- 5. Currency and Currency Problems in Imperial Madagascar, 1820–1895.- 6. Currency as Commodity, as Symbol of Sovereignty and as Subject of Legal Dispute: Henri Greffülhe and the Coinage of Zanzibar in the Late Nineteenth Century.- 7. The Circulation of Modern Currencies and the Impoverishment of the Red Sea World, 1882–2010.- 8. Gilding the Waves: Gold Smuggling and Monetary Policies around the Arabian Sea, 1939–1967.- 9. Dollar, Sovereign and Rupee: Money in Mauritius.