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The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
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Author(s):
Jan Hogendorn
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Marion Johnson
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October 12 2009
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Cambridge University Press
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9780521320863
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9780521541107
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9780511563041
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October 12 2009
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September 11 1986
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10.1017/CBO9780511563041
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Book chapters
pp. xi
Preface
pp. 1
Introduction
pp. 5
The cowrie
pp. 20
The Maldive Islands
pp. 28
The Portuguese domination
pp. 37
The Dutch and English enter the trade (seventeenth century)
pp. 47
Prosperity for the cowrie commerce (eighteenth century)
pp. 64
Boom and slump for the cowrie trade (nineteenth century)
pp. 80
Collection, transport and distribution
pp. 101
Cowries in Africa
pp. 125
The cowrie as money: transport costs, values and inflation
pp. 148
The last of the cowrie
pp. 158
Notes
pp. 202
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