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To understand the scope and aim of our study, it is important to discuss the main approaches and historiographies to which this book refers. We will then go on to present an overview of the environment, trade, shipbuilding, and institutions in the Indian Ocean to provide the background for the notions and practices of labor to be analyzed.
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Stanziani, A. (2014). Colonial Studies, Area Studies, and the Historical Meaning of the Indian Ocean. In: Sailors, Slaves, and Immigrants. Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137448446_2
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