A Sea of Wealth : The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace (California World History Library)

Roberts, Nicholas P.

University of California Press（2025/08発売）

University of California Press（2025/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 290 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780520415782
• DDC分類 303.4825353

Full Description

A Sea of Wealth is a sweeping retelling of the Omani position in the Indian Ocean. Here the reign of Oman's longest-serving ruler, Saʿid bin Sultan, offers a keyhole through which we can peer to see the entangled histories of Arabia and the Gulf, South Asia, and East Africa in the Omani Empire. In centering this empire, Nicholas P. Roberts shows how Arabs, Africans, and Asians actively shaped the conditions of commercial engagement in the Western Indian Ocean, uniting the empire's domains into a single oceanic marketplace in which Europeans and Americans had to accede if they wished to succeed. Drawing upon sources in three languages from four continents, A Sea of Wealth is a vivid narrative full of colorful characters that upturns many conventional understandings of our modern world.

Contents

Contents
 
Note on Spelling
Acknowledgments
Maps
 
Prelude
1. Writing Omani History
2. The Emergence of Empire
3. Contesting the Gulf
4. Moving to Zanzibar
5. Politics of the Marketplace
6. Enslavement and Human Trafficking
7. The Omani Empire in World History
 
Notes
Bibliography
Index