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Early Exchange Between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World
Gwyn . Ed(S): Campbell
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Description for Early Exchange Between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World
Hardback. Editor(s): Campbell, Gwyn. Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Num Pages: 378 pages, 33 black & white illustrations, 8 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1FK; 1H; HBJF; HBJH; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148. Weight in Grams: 642.
This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a “world” is the central significance of the monsoon system which facilitated the early emergence of long-distance trans-IOW maritime exchange of commodities, peoples, plants, animals, technologies and ideas.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
378
Condition
New
Series
Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
Number of Pages
378
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319338217
SKU
V9783319338217
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Ref
99-15
About Gwyn . Ed(S): Campbell
Gwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair, and Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre, at McGill University, Canada. He has published widely on Indian Ocean world themes, including An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750-1895 (2005) and David Griffiths and the Missionary "History of Madagascar" (2012). He is currently completing a manuscript on Africa and the Indian Ocean world from ... Read more
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