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Yankees in Indian Ocean African

Madagascar and Nineteenth-Century American Commerce

JANE HOOPER
African Economic History, January 2018, 46 (2) 30-62; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.46.2.30
JANE HOOPER
Jane Hooper () is an associate professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University. Her first book, , was published in the Indian Ocean studies series by Ohio University Press in 2017.
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Throughout the late eighteenth and into the nineteenth centuries, merchants from the newly independent United States established trading connections around the world. While there have been several recent publications that study these global exchanges, most studies have focused on American activities in Asia and overlooked the development of connections within the Indian Ocean and in East Africa. This article will examine how American merchants established themselves in Madagascar where local exigencies, particularly the existence of interregional exchange networks, shaped their commercial efforts. The possibility of tapping into these networks encouraged New Englanders to visit the port of Mahajanga where they formed partnerships with African, Arab, and Indian intermediaries who were essential to American successes. The history of Americans in Mahajanga thus reveals how contact with diverse political and cultural communities shaped their commercial efforts, as they sought to work closely with Indian Ocean merchant groups and distinguish themselves from their European rivals.

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