帕西首都和帝国基础设施:亚丁港的航运和购物,1840-1888

IF 1.7 1区 历史学 Q1 HISTORY Journal of Global History Pub Date : 2023-10-23 DOI:10.1017/s1740022823000232
Itamar Toussia Cohen
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在苏伊士运河开通后的一个世纪里,全球资本和信息流的规模和范围都以亚丁这样的帝国前哨基地为基础,在那里,船只可以补充燃料,而岸边的货仓和电报站则收集商品和信息,以便接收、处理和传递;到20世纪50年代,每年有超过5000艘船只停靠该港口,使亚丁成为仅次于纽约的世界第二大繁忙港口。本文探讨了印度琐罗亚斯德教(Parsi)资本在塑造亚丁港的物质和制度发展中的作用。帕西公司在国际航运和沙漠殖民地的恶劣环境之间进行调解,提供供应,提供经纪和代理服务,或dubash服务,字面意思是“翻译”。然而,亚丁帕西斯不仅仅是一个特别成功的买办社区,它还发展了一种基于自筹资金、资本密集型基础设施项目的精心设计的跨洋贸易。追溯帝国治国方略外包给亚丁的dubashes,可以让我们将第一波全球化的形成简化,因为推动亚丁发展的主要是帕西资本家,而不是欧洲商人。
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Parsi capital and imperial infrastructure: Shipping and shopping in the port of Aden, 1840-1888
Abstract For a century following the opening of the Suez Canal, the scale and scope of global capital and information flows was predicated on a chain of imperial outposts like Aden, where ships could replenish their fuel supplies while shorefront godowns and telegraph stations gathered commodities and information to be received, processed, and relayed; by the 1950s, over 5,000 vessels called on the harbour annually, making Aden the second busiest port in the world after New York. This article explores the role of Indian-Zoroastrian (Parsi) capital in shaping the material and institutional development of the port of Aden. Parsi firms mediated between international shipping and the hostile environment of the desert colony, supplying provisions and providing brokerage and agency, or dubash services, literally meaning ‘translator’ in the vernacular. More than a particularly successful comprador community, however, Aden Parsis developed an elaborate transoceanic trade predicated on self-financed, capital-intensive infrastructure projects. Tracing the outsourcing of imperial statecraft to dubashes in Aden allows us to provincialize the making of first-wave globalization, as it was predominantly Parsi capitalists rather than European businessmen who were the driving forces of Aden’s development.
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期刊介绍: Journal of Global History addresses the main problems of global change over time, together with the diverse histories of globalization. It also examines counter-currents to globalization, including those that have structured other spatial units. The journal seeks to transcend the dichotomy between "the West and the rest", straddle traditional regional boundaries, relate material to cultural and political history, and overcome thematic fragmentation in historiography. The journal also acts as a forum for interdisciplinary conversations across a wide variety of social and natural sciences. Published for London School of Economics and Political Science
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