Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Tables and chart
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The cowrie
- 2 The Maldive Islands
- 3 The Portuguese domination
- 4 The Dutch and English enter the trade (seventeenth century)
- 5 Prosperity for the cowrie commerce (eighteenth century)
- 6 Boom and slump for the cowrie trade (nineteenth century)
- 7 Collection, transport and distribution
- 8 Cowries in Africa
- 9 The cowrie as money: transport costs, values and inflation
- 10 The last of the cowrie
- Notes
- Bibliogaphy
- Index
Index
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 October 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Tables and chart
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1 The cowrie
- 2 The Maldive Islands
- 3 The Portuguese domination
- 4 The Dutch and English enter the trade (seventeenth century)
- 5 Prosperity for the cowrie commerce (eighteenth century)
- 6 Boom and slump for the cowrie trade (nineteenth century)
- 7 Collection, transport and distribution
- 8 Cowries in Africa
- 9 The cowrie as money: transport costs, values and inflation
- 10 The last of the cowrie
- Notes
- Bibliogaphy
- Index
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- The Shell Money of the Slave Trade , pp. 219 - 230Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1986