Contents
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Acknowledgments
Introduction Indian Ocean Pearling Worlds
Pedro Machado
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Part I : Co mm odifi c ation Chapter 1
The Pearl Commodity Chain, Early Nineteenth Century to the End of the Second World War Trade, Processing, and Consumption W i l l i a m G . C l a r e n c e - Sm i t h
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Chapter 2
Tea, Pearls, and Pearl Shell Cross-Cultural Trade, Slave Raiding, and the Transformation of Material Worlds—The Sulu Zone, China, and the West, 1349–1898 James Francis Warren 55
Part II: Regulation, Resource Management, and Science Chapter 3
An Uncertain Venture Pearling Labor and Imperial Political Economy in South India and Sri Lanka, ca. 1790–1840 S a mu e l M . O s t r o f f 85
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