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

<p>1. Introduction:&nbsp;The Ocean's Many Cloth Pathways.- I. Regions of Production.- 2.Textiles and Silver: The Indian Ocean in a Global Frame.- 3.&nbsp;Cloth and Commerce: Understanding Indian Economic History.- 4.&nbsp;Handkerchiefs, Scarves, Sarees and Cotton Printed Fabrics: Japanese Traders and Producers and the Challenges of Global Markets.- 5.&nbsp;Kanga Made in Japan: The Flow from the Eastern to the Western End of the Indian Ocean&nbsp;World.- 6.&nbsp;A Worn Insecurity: Textiles, Industrialization and Colonial Rule in Eritrea during the Long&nbsp;Twentieth Century.-&nbsp;II. Trade, Exchange and Networks of Distribution.- 7.&nbsp;Distributive Networks, Sub-Regional Tastes, and Ethnicity: The Trade in Chinese Textiles in&nbsp;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&nbsp;Coast in the Late Nineteenth Century.- III. Cultures of Consumption.- 11.&nbsp;Warp and Weft: Producing, Trading and Consuming Indian Textiles across the Seas (First–Thirteenth Century CE).- 12.&nbsp;The Decline of the Malagasy Textile Industry, c. 1800-1895.- 13.&nbsp;Contemporary Geographies of Zanzibari Fashion: Indian Ocean Trade Journeys in the Run-Up&nbsp;to Ramadhan Festivities.- 14. Coda: The Fabric of the Indian Ocean World - Reflections on the Life Cycle of Cloth.</p>