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| Author | : Erik Gilbert |
| Publisher | : James Currey Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 202 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Coastwise shipping |
| ISBN | : |
In highlighting the role of East Africa's commercial connections to the Middle East and India during the colonial period, this book makes a major contribution to African history as part of world history.
| Author | : Abdul Sheriff |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 296 |
| Release | : 1991 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
Zanzibar stands at the center of the Indian Ocean system's involvement in the history of Eastern Africa. This book follows on from the period covered in Abdul Sheriff's acclaimed Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar. The first part of the book shows the transition of Zanzibar from the commercial economy of the nineteenth century to the colonial economy of the twentieth century. The authors begin with the abolition of the slave trade in 1873 that started the process of transformation. They show the transition from slavery to colonial "free" labor, the creation of the capitalist economy, and the resulting social contradictions. They take the history up to formal independence in 1963 with a postscript on the 1964 insurrection. In the second part the authors analyze social classes. The landlords and the merchants were dominant in the commercial empire of the nineteenth century and had difficulties in adjusting to the colonial condition. At the same time the development of capitalist farmers and a fully proletarianized working class was hindered. The conservative administration could not resolve the contradictions of colonial capitalism, and the formation of a united nationalist movement was hampered. This period culminated in the insurrection of 1964, but the revolution could not be consummated without mature revolutionary classes.
| Author | : Erik O. Gilbert |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 680 |
| Release | : 1997 |
| Genre | : Clove trade |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : William Cunningham Bissell |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 394 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253222559 |
At once an engaging portrait of a cosmopolitan African city and an exploration of colonial irrationality, Urban Design, Chaos, and Colonial Power in Zanzibar opens up new perspectives on the making of modernity and the metropolis.
| Author | : Abdul Sheriff |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 419 |
| Release | : 1987-09-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0821440217 |
The rise of Zanzibar was based on two major economic transformations. Firstly slaves became used for producing cloves and grains for export. Previously the slaves themselves were exported. Secondly, there was an increased international demand for luxuries such as ivory. At the same time the price of imported manufactured gods was falling. Zanzibar took advantage of its strategic position to trade as far as the Great Lakes. However this very economic success increasingly subordinated Zanzibar to Britain, with its anti-slavery crusade and its control over the Indian merchant class. Professor Sheriff analyses the early stages of the underdevelopment of East Africa and provides a corrective to the dominance of political and diplomatic factors in the history of the area.
| Author | : Anthony Clayton |
| Publisher | : Hamden, Conn. : Archon Books |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 1981 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Collectif |
| Publisher | : innsbruck University Press |
| Total Pages | : 224 |
| Release | : 2016-09-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 3903122238 |
The world today is far less a global village than a “global city”, as global network of multidimensional urban spaces of congestion prominently forming – and also formed by – globalization. But the relevance of cities is nothing but new. They were essential for culture and civilization worldwide, they allowed a centralization of power and knowledge and they were crucial for the division of labor and for the organization of mass demand. Further, as places of intense and continuous interactions, cities are the locations par excellence for global history to take place. Thus, there is a need to study the history of cities in connection with the history of globalization from this perspective. This book is dedicated to contribute to the still underdeveloped but growing literature connecting the history of cities worldwide and their relation to global processes. The authors do so from various disciplinary backgrounds and by referring to different times and places. We visit ancient Alexandria, nineteenth century Zanzibar, and modern-day São Paolo, among others, and we view these cities not only in their globality, but also through their heritage, their economic relevance, their architecture, or financial flows connecting them. Further, the book also contains systematic considerations about “global city”, especially the general role of cities in development, cities in global history teaching, and cities' relationships to global commodity chains.
| Author | : Jonathon Glassman |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 414 |
| Release | : 2011-02-21 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 025322280X |
The Swahili coast of Africa is often described as a paragon of transnational culture and racial fluidity. Yet, during a brief period in the 1960s, Zanzibar became deeply divided along racial lines as intellectuals and activists, engaged in bitter debates about their nation's future, ignited a deadly conflict that spread across the island. War of Words, War of Stones explores how violently enforced racial boundaries arose from Zanzibar's entangled history. Jonathon Glassman challenges explanations that assume racial thinking in the colonial world reflected only Western ideas. He shows how Africans crafted competing ways of categorizing race from local tradition and engagement with the Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds.
| Author | : Michael L. Lewis |
| Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : Animal ecology |
| ISBN | : 0821415409 |
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| Author | : Getnet Bekele |
| Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 226 |
| Release | : 2017 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1847011748 |
In October 2016, the Ethiopian administration declared a State of Emergency in response to anti-Government demonstrations and mass riots. Officially said to result from subversive activities channelled from Eritrea, Egypt and diasporic populations in the West, the evidence in fact suggests that the riots stemmed from widespread internal dissatisfaction. Large-scale land dispossessions following bilateral deals with transnational agribusiness, damming of major rivers, construction of sugar estates and industry parks as well as urban sprawl have put pressure on agricultural and rural areas. Today, displacement, drought and widening inequalities surround fears of severe food shortages and political instability. Drawing on informant testimonies, court archives, field reports and other sources, the author examines these developments in Ethiopia's lake region. He shows how transformations over time in spatial politics, state-society relations and the organization of production and exchange have influenced the situation today, and reveals the impact of these changes on a population of smallholder farmers for which agriculture is not only the mainstay of the national economy but a way of life. Getnet Bekele is Associate Professor of History at Oakland University, MI, where he teaches African History and the Environmental and Economic History of Africa and the Global South.
