Trading worlds : Afghan merchants across modern frontiers / Magnus Marsden.
Trading worlds : Afghan merchants across modern frontiers / Magnus Marsden.
Trading worlds : Afghan merchants across modern frontiers / Magnus Marsden.
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Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Call Numbers
G 2019/0406
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Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
xv, 432 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
Content type
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Afghan trading networks in central Asia : Tajikistan and beyond -- Karachi-Qurghon : routes matter -- Afghan migrants and urban life in central Asia -- Everyday diplomacy on Afghanistan's central Asian frontiers -- Migrants, militants, and merchants : Ahmed's story, from trader to Talib -- After dip...
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Publisher
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
Place of Publication
New York (State)
Date Published
[2016]
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Scope and Contents
Summary
Trading Worlds is an anthropological study of a little understood yet rapidly expanding global trading network: Afghan merchants who work in South Asia, Central Asia and across Europe. It contests one-sided images that depict traders from this and other conflict regions as immoral profiteers, the cronies of warlords or international drug smugglers....
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Trading worlds : Afghan merchants across modern frontiers / Magnus Marsden.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-422) and index.
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G 2019/0406
Record Identifier
74VKV087Pwm3
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKV087Pwm3
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ISBN
9780190247980 (pbk. ; acid-free paper)
019025131X
9780190251314 (hardback ; acid-free paper)
0190247983
DDC
958.1047
MMS ID
991024227513202626
