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

1. Introduction: The Ocean's Many Cloth Pathways.- I. Regions of Production.- 2.Textiles and Silver: The Indian Ocean in a Global Frame.- 3. Cloth and Commerce: Understanding Indian Economic History.- 4. Handkerchiefs, Scarves, Sarees and Cotton Printed Fabrics: Japanese Traders and Producers and the Challenges of Global Markets.- 5. Kanga Made in Japan: The Flow from the Eastern to the Western End of the Indian Ocean World.- 6. A Worn Insecurity: Textiles, Industrialization and Colonial Rule in Eritrea during the Long Twentieth Century.- II. Trade, Exchange and Networks of Distribution.- 7. Distributive Networks, Sub-Regional Tastes, and Ethnicity: The Trade in Chinese Textiles in Southeast Asia from the Tenth to Fourteenth Centuries CE.- 8.Textile Reorientations: The Manufacture and Trade of Cottons in Java c. 1600-1850.- 9."The Dearest Thing on the East African Coast": The Forgotten Nineteenth Century Trade in "Muscat Cloth".- 10.Converging Trades and New Technologies: The Emergence of Kanga Textiles on the Swahili Coast in the Late Nineteenth Century.- III. Cultures of Consumption.- 11. Warp and Weft: Producing, Trading and Consuming Indian Textiles across the Seas (First-Thirteenth Century CE).- 12. The Decline of the Malagasy Textile Industry, c. 1800-1895.- 13. Contemporary Geographies of Zanzibari Fashion: Indian Ocean Trade Journeys in the Run-Up to Ramadhan Festivities.- 14. Coda: The Fabric of the Indian Ocean World - Reflections on the Life Cycle of Cloth.

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