Buying Time - Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

Klappentext Thomas F. McDow synthesizes Indian Ocean, Middle Eastern, and East African studies to explain how in the nineteenth century, credit, mobility, and kinship knit together a vast interconnected Indian Ocean region. McDow's new historical analysis of the Indian Ocean reveals roles of previously invisible people. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas F. McDow
• Publisher: University of ohio press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.11.2017
• EAN: 9780821422823
• ISBN: 978-0-8214-2282-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: New African Histories
• Subject: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous