A Sea of Wealth
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A Sea of Wealth

The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace

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eBook - ePub

A Sea of Wealth

The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Subvention
  2. Series Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Epigraph
  7. Contents
  8. Note on Spelling
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Maps
  11. Prelude
  12. 1. Writing Omani History
  13. 2. The Emergence of Empire
  14. 3. Contesting the Gulf
  15. 4. Moving to Zanzibar
  16. 5. Politics of the Marketplace
  17. 6. Enslavement and Human Trafficking
  18. 7. The Omani Empire in World History
  19. Notes
  20. Bibliography
  21. Index