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Buying Time : Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean /

Thomas F. McDow synthesizes Indian Ocean, Middle Eastern, and East African studies as well as economic and social history to explain how, in the nineteenth century, credit, mobility, and kinship knit together a vast interconnected Indian Ocean region. That vibrant and enormously influential swath ex...

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Autor principal: McDow, Thomas F. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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