
Pearls, People, and Power
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Essays from a variety of disciplines address the role of slaves and indentured workers in maritime labor arrangements, systems of bondage and transoceanic migration, the impact of European imperialism on regional and local communities, commodity flows and networks of exchange, and patterns of marine resource exploitation between the Industrial Revolution and Great Depression. By encompassing the geographical, cultural, and thematic diversity of Indian Ocean pearling, Pearls, People, and Power deepens our appreciation of the underlying historical dynamics of the many worlds of the Indian Ocean.
Contributors: Robert Carter, William G. Clarence-Smith, Joseph Christensen, Matthew S. Hopper, Pedro Machado, Julia T. Martinez, Michael McCarthy, Jonathan Miran, Steve Mullins, Karl Neuenfeldt, Samuel M. Ostroff, and James Francis Warren.
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"Pearls, People, and Power will become a benchmark edited collection in world commodity history. It covers a large chronological and geographical swath of the pearl trade from the moment the pearls are first extracted by human hands, to when they are used, worn, or worked in a variety of forms. It's an ambitious attempt to take the entirety of the production and consumption of pearls into view in very different but often connected or comparable case studies." - Kerry Ward, author of Networks of Empire: Forced Migration in the Dutch East India Company "This significant contribution to Indian Ocean history offers a unique intersection of environmental history and marine commodity extraction, bringing together a wealth of research about how this precious marine commodity was produced and traded across multiple sites across the vast Indian Ocean. A great addition to world history scholarship." - Eric Tagliacozzo, author of Secret Trades, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States Along a Southeast Asian Frontier, 1865-1915More details
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Steve Mullins is a maritime historian specializing in the colonial tropical sedentary fishing industries and interconnections between the western Pacific, northern Australia, and Propinsi Maluku, Indonesia.
Joseph Christensen is a maritime and environmental historian who works on North West Australia and its place in Indian Ocean history. He is based at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, in Perth, Western Australia.
Content
- Intro
- Series Page
- Frontispiece
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Indian Ocean Pearling Worlds
- Part I: Commodification
- Chapter 1: The Pearl Commodity Chain, Early Nineteenth Century to the End of the Second World War: Trade, Processing, and Consumption
- Chapter 2: Tea, Pearls, and Pearl Shell: Cross-Cultural Trade, Slave Raiding, and the Transformation of Material Worlds-The Sulu Zone, China, and the West, 1349-1898
- Part II: Regulation, Resource Management, and Science
- Chapter 3: An Uncertain Venture: Pearling Labor and Imperial Political Economy in South India and Sri Lanka, ca. 1790-1840
- Chapter 4: The Pearler's Problem: Management, Markets, and the Marine Environment in the Shark Bay Pearling Industry
- Chapter 5: Early Pearling on the Indian Ocean's Southeast Fringe
- Part III: Regionalization and Globalization
- Chapter 6: Shell Routes: Exploring Burma's Pearling Histories
- Chapter 7: Pearl Fishing, Migration, and Globalization in the Persian Gulf, Eighteenth to Twentieth Centuries
- Chapter 8: Enslaved Africans and the Globalization of Arabian Gulf Pearling
- Chapter 9: Torres Strait in the Moluccas: The Transformation of Pearling in the Residency of Ambon, Netherlands Indies, 1890s-1942
- Part IV: Life-Stories, Memory, and Experiences
- Chapter 10: Pearling Fortunes: Recovering 'Ali al-Nahari, a Legendary Red Sea Magnate in the Early Twentieth Century
- Chapter 11: Pearling Women in North Australia: Indigenous Workers and Wives
- Chapter 12: "Pearly Shells," a "Perfect Pearl," and a Guitar in a Pillowcase: Australian Pearling Industry Songs as Community and Personal Memories
- Selected Bibliography
- Contributors
- Index
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