Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean
Thomas F. McDow, "Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean "
English | ISBN: 0821422820 | 2018 | 378 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 0821422820 | 2018 | 378 pages | EPUB | 7 MB
In Buying Time, 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 extended from the desert fringes of Arabia to Zanzibar and the Swahili coast and on to the Congo River watershed.
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