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Lieferstatus:	Vorankündigung
Veröffentlichung:	ANGEKÜNDIGT (Dezember 2024)
Genre:	Geschichte / Politik / Kultur
ISBN:	9780520400481
EAN-Code:	9780520400481
Verlag:	University Presses
Einband:	Kartoniert
Sprache:	English
Dimensionen:	H 229 mm / B 152 mm / D
Seiten:	231
Illustration:	1 b-w figure, 4 b-w maps, 3 tables
Zus. Info:	Trade Paperback
Bewertung:	Keine Bewertung vor Veröffentlichung möglich.

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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 global connections. East Africa's crucial role in this Indian Ocean world has primarily been understood through the influence of coastal trading centers like Mombasa. In Inland from Mombasa, David P. Bresnahan looks anew at this Swahili port city from the vantage point of the communities that lived on its rural edges. By reconstructing the deep history of these Mijikenda-speaking societies over the past two millennia, he shows how profoundly they influenced global trade even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices that historians have claimed are critical to creating global connections, choosing smaller communities over urbanism, local ritual practices over Islam, and inland trade over maritime commerce. Inland from Mombasa makes the compelling case that the seemingly isolating alternative social pursuits selected by Mijikenda speakers were in fact key to their active role in global commerce and politics.