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Big Ship Capitalism with Laleh Khalili

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What Is the History of the Red Sea?

You write out that war and geopolitical conflict have re made maritime shipping and naval power in really complex and interrelated ways. How historically have military and civilian logistics together remade and also destroyed commercial and military power across the peninsula? In the gulf region, adan actually did happen to have a geographically felicitous location. It is on a deep, natural harbor. And although yeme itself does not is not rich in, for example, water resources or food for victualling,. nevertheless, it has been a sort of cross roads of trade for a really long time, for millennia-in fact. You writeq, politics and social relations were often more important than geographic fe so many of

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