'From desh to desh': The Family Firm as Trans-Local Household in the Nineteenth-Century Western Indian Ocean

• Published in: Journal of world history Vol. 34; no. 2; pp. 187 - 216
• Main Author: Wint, Hollian
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Honolulu University of Hawai'i Press 01.06.2023; University of Hawaii Press
• Subjects: 19th century; Analysis; Capital; Domestic relations; Families & family life; Family owned businesses; Family relations; Historical methods; Historical research; Historiography; History; Households; International trade; Methods; Petitions; Slavery; Social networks; Success; Transactions; World history; Indian Ocean; Zanzibar

Using a micro-historical method, this article reconceptualizes the family firm as a trans-local extended household. The family firm plays a central role in the historiography of long-distance trade in the Indian Ocean. Yet it remains a largely under-theorized concept. The conceptual shift that this...