| Description |
1 online resource |
| Series |
New African Histories |
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New African histories series.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Buying time -- Drought and new mobilities in the Omani interior -- The customs masters and customs of credit in Zanzibar -- Sultans at sea : mobility and the Omani states -- Halwa and identity in the western Indian Ocean world -- Tippu Tip's kin, from Oman to the eastern Congo -- Freed slaves : manumission and mobility before 1873 -- Acts for consuls and consular acts : documents, manumission, and ocean travel after 1873 -- A dhow on Lake Victoria -- "Everything is pledged to its time" : Salih bin Ali, debt, and rebellion in the Omani interior -- Epilogue |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed April 3, 2018) |
| Subject |
Credit -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 19th century
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Credit -- Africa, Eastern -- History -- 19th century
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HISTORY -- Africa -- Central.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Human Geography.
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Civilization -- Oriental influences
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Commerce
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Credit
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Civilisation -- Afrique orientale -- Influence occidentale.
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Commerce -- Indien, Ocean (region) -- 19e siecle.
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Credit -- Afrique orientale -- 19e siecle.
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Credit -- Indien, Ocean (region) -- 19e siecle.
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| SUBJECT |
Indian Ocean Region -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
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Africa, Eastern -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century
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Africa, Eastern -- Civilization -- Oriental influences.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001598
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| Subject |
Eastern Africa
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Indian Ocean Region
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Afrique orientale -- Commerce -- 19e siecle.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780821446096 |
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0821446096 |
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