Pearls, People, and Power: Pearling and Indian Ocean Worlds
About this ebook
Essays from a variety of disciplines address the role of slaves and indentured workers in maritime labor arrangements, systems of bondage and transoceanic migration, the impact of European imperialism on regional and local communities, commodity flows and networks of exchange, and patterns of marine resource exploitation between the Industrial Revolution and Great Depression. By encompassing the geographical, cultural, and thematic diversity of Indian Ocean pearling, Pearls, People, and Power deepens our appreciation of the underlying historical dynamics of the many worlds of the Indian Ocean.
Contributors: Robert Carter, William G. Clarence-Smith, Joseph Christensen, Matthew S. Hopper, Pedro Machado, Julia T. Martínez, Michael McCarthy, Jonathan Miran, Steve Mullins, Karl Neuenfeldt, Samuel M. Ostroff, and James Francis Warren.
About the author
Pedro Machado is a global and Indian Ocean historian with interests in commodity histories, labor and migratory movements, and the social, cultural, environmental, and commercial trajectories of objects. He is based at Indiana University, Bloomington..
Steve Mullins is a maritime historian specializing in the colonial tropical sedentary fishing industries and interconnections between the western Pacific, northern Australia, and Propinsi Maluku, Indonesia.
Joseph Christensen is a maritime and environmental historian who works on North West Australia and its place in Indian Ocean history. He is based at the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, in Perth, Western Australia.
