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From a very early date, the Indian Ocean was traversed by ships, and over the centuries, the exchanges transformed this ocean into a unified and hierarchized space (Pearson 2003; Beaujard 2012).
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Beaujard, P. (2015). The Worlds of the Indian Ocean. In: Pearson, M. (eds) Trade, Circulation, and Flow in the Indian Ocean World. Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-137-56624-9_2
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