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(lots of gratitude to those who helped along the way to this). (and if you have trouble getting access to this, especially in East Africa, don't hesitate to be in touch).

I've also put some material relevant for teaching parts of the book -- such as archival sources -- here:

Ultimately, I think Money, Value, and the State has something to say to historians and anthropologists, but also scholars interested in debates about money and capitalism, including those thinking about 'monetary sovereignty'.

Smugglers refused the borders and predations imposed by states. But they also impeded more beneficent efforts to navigate a volatile and unequal world system.

It also discusses the rise of smuggling economies, as well as other activities like 'hoarding' and counterfeiting that were criminalized by states desperate to control how value circulated.

The book covers .*the role of the Bank of England in protecting Kenyan settlers, .*the exuberant embrace of bank branches in Idi Amin's Uganda, and .*the nationalization of Barclays in socialist Tanzania (discussed here: @BostonReview).

Rather than thinking of 'citizenship' as an unalloyed good, I argue that postcolonial citizenship was (a) often an imposition on people with extra-territorial affiliations and (b) obliged East Africans to prove their economic worth (especially by earning export value).

Central to this was what I call "the moneychanger state," through which governments controlled the conversion between 'soft' domestic currencies and 'hard' foreign currencies. Controlling different types of money produced hierarchies and authority.

It explores how the deployment of national currencies, the establishment of central banks, and the issuance of agrarian credit were efforts to govern value: what would be produced and how would it be circulated?.

Money, Value, and the State explores how decolonisation in Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania was an economic struggle, rather than a political event.

It's available here via @CambridgeUP @studyingafrica