Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the ‘Early Modern’: Historiographical Conventions and Problems
European-inspired scholarship underscores conventional academic consensus that African commercial entrepeneurship disappeared with the European voyages of discovery, and subsequent implantation of the Potuguese, Dutch, English, and French commercial empires. Thus the people of eastern Africa are por...
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McGill University
2017-05-01
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| Series: | Journal of Indian Ocean World Studies |