TRADE AND CIVILIZATION IN MEDIEVAL EAST AFRICA: SOCIOECONOMIC NETWORKS

Trade and Civilisation: Economic Networks and Cultural Ties, from Prehistory to the Early Modern Era

Volumn , Issue , 2018, Pages 320-353

  Kusimba, Chapurukha M ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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