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 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