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

An Ocean of Cloth

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Editors:
  1. Pedro Machado

    1. Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA

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  2. Sarah Fee

    1. Department of World Cultures, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

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  3. Gwyn Campbell

    1. Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

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  • Presents the first truly comprehensive study of textile trades across the Indian Ocean
  • Advances knowledge of textiles and trade in the region with a unique, expansive geographical and chronological focus
  • Appeals to scholars of history, anthropology, art history, and geography, as well as archaeologists, curators, and collectors

Part of the book series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies (IOWS)

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This collection examines cloth as a material and consumer object from early periods to the twenty-first century, across multiple oceanic sites—from Zanzibar, Muscat and Kampala to Ajanta, Srivijaya and Osaka. It moves beyond usual focuses on a single fibre (such as cotton) or place (such as India) to provide a fresh, expansive perspective of the ocean as an “interaction-based arena,” with an internal dynamism and historical coherence forged by material exchange and human relationships. Contributors map shifting social, cultural and commercial circuits to chart the many histories of cloth across the region. They also trace these histories up to the present with discussions of contemporary trade in Dubai, Zanzibar, and Eritrea. Richly illustrated, this collection brings together new and diverse strands in the long story of textiles in the Indian Ocean, past and present.

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxv
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  2. Introduction: The Ocean’s Many Cloth Pathways

    • Pedro Machado, Sarah Fee
    Pages 1-25

  6. Back Matter

    Pages 397-426
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Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington, Bloomington, USA

    Pedro Machado

  • Department of World Cultures, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada

    Sarah Fee

  • Indian Ocean World Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

    Gwyn Campbell

About the editors

Pedro Machado is Associate Professor of History at Indiana University, Bloomington, USA.

Sarah Fee is a Curator of Eastern Hemisphere Textiles and Fashion at the Royal Ontario Museum, Canada.

Gwyn Campbell is Professor of History and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Textile Trades, Consumer Cultures, and the Material Worlds of the Indian Ocean

  • Book Subtitle: An Ocean of Cloth

  • Editors: Pedro Machado, Sarah Fee, Gwyn Campbell

  • Series Title: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-58265-8

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-58264-1Published: 20 February 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-86363-4Published: 04 June 2019

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-58265-8Published: 09 February 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2730-9703

  • Series E-ISSN: 2730-9711

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XXV, 426

  • Number of Illustrations: 14 b/w illustrations, 39 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Asian History, Cultural History, World History, Global and Transnational History, Asian Culture

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