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Author McDow, Thomas F., 1970- author.

Title Buying time : debt and mobility in the western Indian Ocean / Thomas F. McDow.

Publication Info. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018]
©2018

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Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series New African Histories
New African histories series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Indian Ocean Region -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.
Indian Ocean Region.
Commerce.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject Africa, Eastern -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.
Eastern Africa.
Africa, Eastern -- Civilization -- Oriental influences.
Civilization.
Credit -- Indian Ocean Region -- History -- 19th century.
Credit.
Credit -- Africa, Eastern -- History -- 19th century.
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: McDow, Thomas F., 1970- Buying time. Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2018] 9780821422816 0821422812 (OCoLC)1010637845
ISBN 9780821446096 (electronic book)
0821446096 (electronic book)
9780821422816
0821422812
9780821422823
0821422820
0821446096