East Africa And The Indian Ocean
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East Africa and the Indian Ocean
Author | : Edward A. Alpers |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : UOM:39015080753240 |
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"For centuries, East Africa has played a central role within the Indian Ocean world. The Arabs built the first trade networks there; these were laid siege to by the Portuguese in the sixteenth century, followed by British colonialists in the nineteenth century. An interregional trade linked different subregions of East Africa to other Indian Ocean economies. For example, Hindu merchants from Gujarat played a leading role in the ivory trade of East Africa during the past four centuries. In the nineteenth century, Zanzibar became a major center of the Asian slave trade. While slave trading, slave raiding, and their consequences provide one thematic focus of this book, the author also demonstrates that Indian Ocean commercial networks were much more complex in the range of products exchanged, including luxury goods and staple food items, as well as enforced labor. Islam provided yet another connective tissue linking East Africa to the Indian Ocean world and served as a cultural matrix through which popular beliefs and practices were transmitted. This book offers an eye-opening perspective on an often neglected area of world history."--Publisher's description.
Problems in the History of Modern Africa
Author | : Robert O. Collins |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : UOM:39015040615182 |
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A presentation of important issues in the study of modern Africa. It addresses: decolonization and the end of Empire; democracy and the nation state; epidemics in Africa - the human and financial costs; development - failure or success; the African environment - origins of a crisis; and more.
Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World
Author | : Gwyn Campbell |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2016-12-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9783319338224 |
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This volume comprises a selection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines that discuss the exchange relationship between Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world (IOW), a macro-region running from East Africa to China, from early times to about 1300 CE. The rationale for regarding this macro-region as a “world” is the central significance of the monsoon system which facilitated the early emergence of long-distance trans-IOW maritime exchange of commodities, peoples, plants, animals, technologies and ideas.
Early Maritime Cultures in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean
Author | : Akshay Sarathi |
Publsiher | : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd |
Total Pages | : 240 |
Release | : 2018-11-30 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781784917135 |
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This volume represents a multi-disciplinary effort to examine East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean. Multiple lines of evidence drawn from linguistics, archaeology, history, art history, and ethnography come together in novel ways to highlight different aspects of the region’s past and offer innovative avenues for future research.
Connecting the Gems of the Indian Ocean
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Author | : Nathaniel Mathews,Prita Meier,Abdul Sheriff,Nicole Shivers,Lanisa Kitchiner,Denise Saunders Thompson,Majid al-Harthy,Anna Mwalagho,Glenn Ojeda,Dodge Billingsley,K. E. Coney-Ali |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 176 |
Release | : 2016-10-06 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 0965600165 |
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A Field Guide to the Seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean Islands
Author | : Matt Richmond |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Coastal ecology |
ISBN | : 9987897797 |
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African Merchants of the Indian Ocean
Author | : John Middleton |
Publsiher | : Waveland Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2003-11-07 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9781478609681 |
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This new monograph serves as an authoritative introduction to an unusual people of eastern Africa known as Swahili. Middleton, who has known these people for a half a century, describes their highly stratified, merchant society and civilization, documenting their importance both for anthropologists and for others interested in Africa. Swahili continue today their centuries-old role as merchants in long-distance international trade, a role that has led them to form a society very distinct from any other in Africa. Middletons brief, personal treatment discusses Swahili recorded history as an integral part of their rich tradition and civilization. He clears up past confusions and mistaken assumptions without trying to define a single Swahili identity. His lucid approach unravels contradictions about Swahili being merchants and yet fishermen, who live in both cities as well as small villages, and who reckon various kinds of kinship and marriage. Swahili are often considered by non-Swahili as being both Africans and Arabs, but Middleton shows that they remain African despite having long adopted Islam and many aspects of Arab and Asian cultures.
The African Diaspora in the Indian Ocean
Author | : Shihan de S. Jayasuriya,Richard Pankhurst |
Publsiher | : Africa World Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 086543980X |
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Although much has been written about the African Diaspora in the Atlantic Ocean, the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean is virtually unrecognised. Concerned with Africans who lived south of the Sahara and were dispersed by free will or forcefully to the non-African lands in the Indian Ocean region, this book deals with a topic that has been overlooked for too long. Eight scholars researching in distinct geographical areas and with interdisciplinary expertise offer a comprehensive and informative account of the Diaspora in the Indian Ocean.