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Inland from Mombasa : East Africa and the Making of the Indian Ocean World.

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged transregional networks into a world of globa...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bresnahan, David P.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
Mijikenda (African people) > History.
HISTORY / World.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Language
  • Introduction
  • 1 Unmoored from the Ocean
  • 2 Looking Inland, to the World
  • 3 The Inland Underpinnings of Indian Ocean Commerce
  • 4 Inland Villages and Oceanic Empires
  • 5 From Mijikenda City to Busaidi Backwater
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix 1 Placing East African Languages in Time and Space
  • Appendix 2 Mijikenda Dialects
  • Appendix 3 Lexical Reconstructions and Distributions
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index