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EARLY EXCHANGE BETWEEN AFRICA AND THE WIDER INDIAN OCEAN WOR IBD

PALGRAVE MACMILLAN
07 / 2018
9783319816111
Inglês

Sinopse

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.