Mobile Households

“Mobile Households is a bold and original work that adds new depth and understanding to the study of the history of capitalism in the Indian Ocean region. Hollian Wint-Frederick’s fine-grained focus on individuals, and especially women, and her ability to parse complex legal notions across overlapping (and sometimes competing) legal traditions make this a tour de force of scholarship.” - Thomas McDow, coauthor of A Primer for Teaching Indian Ocean World History

“Mobile Households is an outstanding study of capitalism in the western Indian Ocean. Drawing on detailed archival research in multiple languages, Hollian Wint-Frederick uses state records as well as vernacular sources to produce rich micro-histories of the world of the family firm and household of the Indian Ocean in an age of empire. Her work sheds light on a world of exchange that has been woefully understudied, and will shift the way histories of the region are understood and written.” - Nidhi Mahajan, author of Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean