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Western Indian Ocean

[Book Review] Fahad Ahmad Bishara, A Sea of Debt – Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 & Johan Mathew, Margins of the Market: Trafficking and Capitalism Across the Arabian Sea

By Sebastian Bernburg  //  December 1, 2017

[Book Review] Fahad Ahmad Bishara, A Sea of Debt – Law and Economic Life in the Western Indian Ocean, 1780-1950 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017). 288 pages; ISBN:9781107155657 & Johan Mathew, Margins of the Market: Trafficking…

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