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• Short-listed for Bethwell A. Ogot Book Prize 2019

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-If scholars have long known in a general way that Oman and East Africa were connected, McDow traces out many of the specific and unexpected ways in which they were, in the stories and actions of specific persons. This is new territory.- -- Pier M. Larson, author of Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora

If scholars have long known in a general way that Oman and East Africa were connected, McDow traces out many of the specific and unexpected ways in which they were, in the stories and actions of specific persons. This is new territory. -- Pier M. Larson, author of Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora In Buying Time, McDow argues for a transnational western Indian Ocean network of credit and debt that linked both coastal and interior Oman to Zanzibar and the continental African interior in the long nineteenth century. With remarkable, previously ignored Arabic legal documents its heart, McDow's analysis is notably innovative in the way it links environmental factors, debt, and mobility. -- Edward A. Alpers, author of The Indian Ocean in World History -If scholars have long known in a general way that Oman and East Africa were connected, McDow traces out many of the specific and unexpected ways in which they were, in the stories and actions of specific persons. This is new territory.- -- Pier M. Larson, author of Ocean of Letters: Language and Creolization in an Indian Ocean Diaspora -In Buying Time, McDow argues for a transnational western Indian Ocean network of credit and debt that linked both coastal and interior Oman to Zanzibar and the continental African interior in the long nineteenth century. With remarkable, previously ignored Arabic legal documents its heart, McDow's analysis is notably innovative in the way it links environmental factors, debt, and mobility.- -- Edward A. Alpers, author of The Indian Ocean in World History

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Thomas F. McDow is an assistant professor of history at Ohio State University. He teaches courses on the history of Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the world.

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