Article: On the Edge of Empire: Hadramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s.(Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth)(Book Review)

On the Edge of Empire: Hadramawt, Emigration, and the Indian Ocean, 1880s-1930s. By LINDA BOXBERGER. SUNY Series in Near Eastern Studies. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2002. 292 + xix pp. $22.95 (paper).

Merchants, Mamluks, and Murder: The Political Economy of Trade in Eighteenth. Century Basra. By THABIT A. J. ABDULLAH. SUNY Series in the Social and Economic History of the Orient. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2001. 180 + xviii pp. $20.95 (paper).

These two fine studies are connected not merely by their publisher but also, as the authors would concede, by the Indian Ocean and by the common theme of European expansion in the ...

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