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Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili

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What Did the Acquisition of the British Piano Mean for Colonial Power?

The british piano, the famed peninsular and oriental steam navigation company was bought by duby's d p world two thousand six years ago. What does that moment say about the geographic transformation of capitalism? And what did its purchase reveal about the geographically complex and nd shifting nature of capitalist power in the post colonial world? The story is so illustrative of these fluctuations, these shifts, these movements of capital in this post colonial age.

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