INDIAN OCEAN EMPIRE
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AGE OF
MENASHE ANZI (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Jewish-Muslim Commercial Networks in the Red Sea:
The Ḥibshūsh Family Legacy
ANGELO CAGLIOTI (Barnard College)
On the Coast of the Monsoon: Italian Colonialism the Environmental History of Somalia (1889-1960)
SCOTT ERICH (Washington College)
Britannia Rule the Waves: The Depths of Sea Law in the Imperial Gulf
NEHA VORA (American University of Sharjah)
Online Cat Communities and the Production of
Immigrant Urban Belonging in the UAE
LAURA YAN (Cambridge University)
Temasek, Singapura, Singapore: Deconstructing the Singapore Story
LEILAH VEVAINA (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Dying in Diaspora: The Role of Communal Finance in Zoroastrian Funerals
SANA AIYAR (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Sacred Geographies and Hindu-Buddhist Majoritarianism across the Buddhist Bay
MARK WAGNER (Louisiana State University)
“Something of a Despicable Fellow:” Banin Messa, the Rise,
and the Fall of an Indian Ocean Jewish Community
MATTHEW J. BOWSER (Alabama A&M University)
Containing Decolonisation: British Imperialism and the Politics of
Race in Late Colonial Burma
EIRIK KVINDESLAND (University of Oxford)
Jews of the Persian Gulf: The Making of an Oceanic Network and Its Meaning for Middle Eastern History
DANISH KHAN (University of Oxford)
Trade to Manufacture: Gujarati Muslim Merchants in Colonial Bombay
JEREMY PRESTHOLDT (University of California, San Diego)
Clothing Empires: Indian Ocean Africa, Japanese Cotton Textiles, and Colonial Capitalism
PHILLIP GOODING (McGill University)
A Climate of State-Building in Equatorial Eastern Africa c.1840-1875
KETAKI PANT (University of Southern California, Dornsife)
Itinerant Belonging: Gujarat’s Merchant Havelis and Occluded Histories of Indian Ocean Capitalism
JULIA STEPHENS (Rutgers University)
Cosmopolitan Graves: Thamboosamy Pillai and Legacy Making and Unmaking in British Malaya
JATIN DUA (University of Michigan)
Chokepoints: Temporalities of Navigation in the Red Sea
PETER GOOD (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Persianate Luxury: The Tangible and Intangible Legacy
of the Indian Ocean Wine Trade
TAMARA FERNANDO (Stony Brook University)
Fishing for the Past: Histories of Maritime Archaeology and Anthropology in the Indian Ocean
NICHOLAS P. ROBERTS (Norwich University)
Cosmopolitanism and Power: The Omani Empire in the Age of Global Capitalism
SUJIT SIVASUNDARAM (University of Cambridge)
An Environmental History of the Indian Ocean
GEORGIO RIELLO & MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN
(European University Institute)
Where is Asia in the History of Early Modern Capitalism?
NISHA MATHEW (Mahindra University)
Malabar's Golden Trail: From the Indian Ocean to the Global Economy
MIRCEA RAIANU (The University of Maryland, College Park)
Tata: The Global Corporation That Built Indian Capitalism
MICHAEL CHRISTOPHER LOW (University of Utah)
From Empires of Coal and Steam to the Petro-States and Saltwater Kingdoms: The Indian Ocean Roots of Fossil-Fueled Water in the Arabian Peninsula and Gulf, 1850-2100
PETER E. HAMILTON (Lingnan University)
Made In Hong Kong: Transpacific Networks and a
New History of Globalization
ROY BAR SADEH (Yale University)
Worldmaking in the Hijaz: Muslims between Indian and Soviet Visions of Managing Difference, 1919-1926
ANDREW B. LIU (Villanova University)
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
STEPHEN J. RAMOS (University of Georgia)
Mapping Gulf Infrastructure and Territory
ABDEL RAZZAQ TAKRITI (University of Houston)
Southern Arabian Revolutions: Challenging Colonial Capitalism
in the Indian Ocean
TYLER KYNN (University of Memphis)
The Seasonality of Ottoman Imperial Power: Mecca, Medina,
and the Sultan’s Purse
NIDHI MAHAJAN (University of California, Santa Cruz)
‘The Fire Under the Sea’: Arbitrage and Smuggling in the
Western Indian Ocean
JOHAN MATHEW (Rutgers University)
Historicizing Human Capital: Rickshaws, Narcotics, and a
Global History of Labor
NURFADZILAH YAHAYA (Yale University)
Bound by Property in Death
NILE GREEN (UCLA)
Asia’s Self-Discovery: Intercultural Understanding and
the Infrastructure of Empire
HOLLIAN WINT (UCLA)
From 'Desh' to 'Desh': The Family Firm as a Trans-Local Household in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean
MICHAEL O'SULLIVAN (Harvard University)
‘No Salve for Muslim Wounds’: Proprietary Islam, Economic Disparity, and Gujarati Muslim Corporate Institutions,
1870-1970
MATTHEW S. HOPPER (California Polytechnic State University)
Liberated Africans in the Indian Ocean World
FAHAD AHMAD BISHARA (University of Virginia)
Rewriting the Bazaar: Vernacular Histories of Capitalism
in the Indian Ocean World
