A Sea of Wealth

The Omani Empire and the Making of an Oceanic Marketplace

Nicholas P. Roberts (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

290 Seiten

2025
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-41578-2 (ISBN)

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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.

Nicholas P. Roberts was formerly Assistant Professor of History at Norwich University and the Howell Fellow for Arabian Peninsula and Gulf Studies at the University of Virginia. He is currently earning a JD at Case Western Reserve University.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Reihe/Serie	California World History Library ; 33
Zusatzinfo	8 b-w
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	408 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte
ISBN-10	0-520-41578-7 / 0520415787
ISBN-13	978-0-520-41578-2 / 9780520415782
Zustand	Neuware