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Writing the global Indian Ocean

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Sailors, slaves, and immigrants: bondage in the Indian Ocean world, 1750–1914 By StanzianiAlessandro. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. Pp. 188. Hardback £59.50, ISBN 978-1-137-44845-3; paperback £56.50, ISBN 078-1-349-49644-0.
Ocean of trade: South Asian merchants, Africa and the Indian Ocean c.1750–1850 By MachadoPedro. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Pp. xv + 315. Hardback £67.00, ISBN 978-1-107-07026-4; paperback £19.99, ISBN 978-1-107-67611-4.
European slave trading in the Indian Ocean, 1500–1850 By Allen.Richard B., Athens OH: Ohio University Press, 2015. Pp. xviii + 378. Hardback £62.00, ISBN 978-0-8214-2106-2; paperback £23.99, ISBN 978-0-8214-2107-9.

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2017

Nigel Worden
Nigel Worden*
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University of Cape Town, South Africa E-mail: nigel.worden@uct.ac.za
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Journal of Global History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , March 2017 , pp. 145 - 154
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5 For an example of a detailed review, and a guide to how to approach the reading of such a massive work, see Philippe Norel, ‘L’océan Indien de Philippe Beaujard’, 7 January and 9 March 2013, http://blogs.histoireglobale.com/locean-indien-de-philippe-beaujard_2390 and http://blogs.histoireglobale.com/locean-indien-de-philippe-beaujard-2_2615 (consulted 29 November 2016).

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13 Readers of this journal will hardly need reminders of this critique, but mention of Lewis, M. and Wigen, K., The myth of continents: a critique of metageography, Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997 Google Scholar, and the work of J. Bentley exemplified by, ‘The task of world history’, in J. Bentley, ed., The Oxford handbook of world history, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 1–16, may serve as reference points. The issue is also examined in Stanziani, Sailors, slaves, and immigrants, pp. 15–16.

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