Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean

Chapter 1 Introduction: The Ocean’s Many Cloth Pathways

Chapter 2 Textiles and Silver: The Indian Ocean in a Global Frame

Chapter 3 Cloth and Commerce: Understanding Indian Economic History

Chapter 4 Handkerchiefs, Scarves, Sarees and Cotton Printed Fabrics: Japanese Traders and Producers and the Challenges of Global Markets

Chapter 5 Kanga Made in Japan: The Flow from the Eastern to the Western End of the Indian Ocean World

Chapter 6 A Worn Insecurity: Textiles‚ Industrialization and Colonial Rule in Eritrea During the Long Twentieth Century

Chapter 7 Distributive Networks, Sub-Regional Tastes and Ethnicity: The Trade in Chinese Textiles in Southeast Asia from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries CE

Chapter 8 Textile Reorientations: The Manufacture and Trade of Cottons in Java c. 1600–1850

Chapter 9 ‘The Dearest Thing on the East African Coast’: The Forgotten Nineteenth-Century Trade in ‘Muscat Cloth’

Chapter 10 Converging Trades and New Technologies: The Emergence of Kanga Textiles on the Swahili Coast in the Late Nineteenth Century

Chapter 11 Warp and Weft: Producing, Trading and Consuming Indian Textiles Across the Seas (First–Thirteenth Centuries CE)

Chapter 12 The Decline of the Malagasy Textile Industry, c. 1800–1895

Chapter 13 Contemporary Geographies of Zanzibari Fashion: Indian Ocean Trade Journeys in the Run-Up to Ramadhan Festivities

Chapter 14 The Fabric of the Indian Ocean World: Reflections on the Life Cycle of Cloth