Buying Time - Thomas F. McDow New African Histories

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      Buying Time

      NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES

      SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN, ALLEN ISAACMAN, AND DEREK R. PETERSON

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      Thomas F. McDow, Buying Time

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       Buying Time

       Debt and Mobility in the Western Indian Ocean

      Thomas F. McDow

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      Ohio University Press, Athens, Ohio 45701

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Names: McDow, Thomas F., 1970– author.

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

      Other titles: New African histories series.

      Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2018. | Series: New African Histories | Includes bibliographical references and index.

      Identifiers: LCCN 2017061019| ISBN 9780821422816 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422823 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821446096 (pdf)

      Subjects: LCSH: Indian Ocean Region—Commerce—History—19th century. | Africa, Eastern—Commerce—History—19th century. | Africa, Eastern—Civilization—Oriental influences. | Credit—Indian Ocean Region—History—19th century. | Credit—Africa, Eastern—History—19th century.

      Classification: LCC DT365.65 .M33 2018 | DDC 967.601—dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017061019

       Contents

       List of Illustrations

       Acknowledgments

       Note on Terms, Translation, and Transliteration

       Introduction. Temporizing across the Indian Ocean

       Chapter 1. Drought and New Mobilities in the Omani Interior

       Chapter 2. The Customs Master and Customs of Credit in Zanzibar

       Chapter 3. Sultans at Sea: Mobility and the Omani States

       Chapter 4. Halwa and Identity in the Western Indian Ocean World

       Chapter 5. Tippu Tip’s Kin, from Oman to the Eastern Congo

       Chapter 6. Freed Slaves: Manumission and Mobility before 1873

       Chapter

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