Buying Time: Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

by Thomas F. McDow

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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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Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0821422820

ISBN13:9780821422823

Release Date:May 2018

Publisher:Ohio University Press

Length:378 Pages

Weight:1.15 lbs.

Dimensions:1.1" x 5.9" x 8.9"

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History Law

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