Steven Serels holds a joint appointment as a Research Officer at the Zentrum für Interdisziplinäre Regionalstudien at Martin Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and as a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University's Center for Middle Eastern Studies, USA.
Gwyn Campbell is Founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Canada.

1. Introduction: The Indian Ocean World Currency System

2. Major "International" Currencies of China and Japan: The Use of Copper Coins, Silver Ingots and Paper Money

3. Indian Kingdoms, 1200-1500 and the Maritime Trade in Monetary Commodities

4. What East Africans Got for their Ivory and Slaves: The Nature, Working and Circulation of Commodity Currencies in Nineteenth-Century East Africa

5. Currency and Currency Problems in Imperial Madagascar, 1820-1895

6. Currency as Commodity, as Symbol of Sovereignty and as Subject of Legal Dispute: Henri Greffülhe and the Coinage of Zanzibar in the Late Nineteenth Century

7. The Circulation of Modern Currencies and the Impoverishment of the Red Sea World, 1882-2010

8. Gilding the Waves: Gold Smuggling and Monetary Policies around the Arabian Sea, 1939-1967

9. Dollar, Sovereign and Rupee: Money in Mauritius