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The Colonial Currency Transition

A View from East Africa

Karin Pallaver
African Economic History, June 2025, 53 (1) 166-182; DOI: https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.166
Karin Pallaver
Karin Pallaver is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, where she teaches Modern African History and Indian Ocean History. She has recently edited the volume Monetary Transitions. Currencies, Colonialism and African Societies (Palgrave 2022).
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vol. 53 no. 1 166-182
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https://doi.org/10.3368/aeh.53.1.166
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African Economic History
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  • Published online July 8, 2025.
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  1. Karin Pallaver (karin.pallaver{at}unibo.it) is Associate Professor at the Department of History and Cultures, University of Bologna, where she teaches Modern African History and Indian Ocean History. She has recently edited the volume Monetary Transitions. Currencies, Colonialism and African Societies (Palgrave 2022).
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    • Introduction
    • The Role of Precolonial States in Currency Adoption and Circulation
    • Fungibility and Durability: The Materiality of Colonial Money
    • The Limited Reach of the Colonial State
    • Borderlands as Sites of Currency Multiplicity
    • The Seasonality of Currency Circulation
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