Slaves Spices Ivory In Zanzibar

Author : Abdul Sheriff
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1987-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821440216

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Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar by Abdul Sheriff Pdf

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 : Abdul Sheriff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 1782047778

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Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar by Abdul Sheriff Pdf

Author : Abdul Sheriff
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821408720

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Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar by Abdul Sheriff Pdf

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 : Abdul Sheriff,Ed Ferguson
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Social conflict
ISBN : 0852550812

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Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule by Abdul Sheriff,Ed Ferguson Pdf

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 : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1873
Category : Adventure stories
ISBN : UIUC:30112040256403

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Black Ivory by Robert Michael Ballantyne Pdf

An adventure story based on the history of the slave trade as practiced until the late nineteenth century.

Author : Raphaël Cheriau
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2021-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000383010

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Imperial Powers and Humanitarian Interventions by Raphaël Cheriau Pdf

In the second half of the nineteenth century, the Zanzibar Sultanate became the focal point of European imperial and humanitarian policies, most notably Britain, France, and Germany. In fact, the Sultanate was one of the few places in the world where humanitarianism and imperialism met in the most obvious fashion. This crucial encounter was perfectly embodied by the iconic meeting of Dr. Livingstone and Henry Morton Stanley in 1871. This book challenges the common presumption that those humanitarian concerns only served to conceal vile colonial interests. It brings the repression of the East African slave trade at sea and the expansion of empires into a new light in comparing French and British archives for the first time.

Author : Christine Dobbin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2013-11-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781136787003

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Asian Entreprenuerial Minorities by Christine Dobbin Pdf

Advances the theoretical understanding of the behaviour of entrepreneurial minorities and draws a vivid picture of how various imperial powers came to rely on local entreprenuerial minorities to establish their hegemony in Asia.

Author : Christiane Bird
Publisher : Random House Incorporated
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 9780345469403

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The Sultan's Shadow by Christiane Bird Pdf

A dramatic account of the slave trade in the early 19th century Indian Ocean is presented through the stories of the Omani Sultan Said and his daughter, Princess Salme, offering insight into the Arabian Peninsula kingdom's lucrative growth and ties to America.

Author : Sarah Longair
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2016-03-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317158776

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Cracks in the Dome: Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum, 1897-1964 by Sarah Longair Pdf

As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or Peace Memorial Museum) is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history behind its construction and collection has been overlooked by historians until now. Drawing on a rich and wide range of hitherto unexplored archival, photographic, architectural and material evidence, this book is the first serious investigation of this remarkable institution. Although the museum was not opened until 1925, this book traces the longer history of colonial display which culminated in the establishment of the Zanzibar Museum. It reveals the complexity of colonial knowledge production in the changing political context of the twentieth century British Empire and explores the broad spectrum of people from diverse communities who shaped its existence as staff, informants, collectors and teachers. Through vivid narratives involving people, objects and exhibits, this book exposes the fractures, contradictions and tensions in creating and maintaining a colonial museum, and casts light on the conflicted character of the ’colonial mission’ in eastern Africa.

Author : Beatrice Nicolini
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004137806

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Makran, Oman, and Zanzibar by Beatrice Nicolini Pdf

This unique contribution to the growing field of western Indian Ocean studies brings new light and new perspective on the early 19th century expansion of both Omani Sultan and the British. The important role played by the Baluch in East Africa is here discussed thanks to little known archive documents integrated with field work.

Author : Toyin Falola,R. Joseph Parrott,Danielle Porter Sanchez
Publisher : Rochester Studies in African H
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781580469548

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African Islands by Toyin Falola,R. Joseph Parrott,Danielle Porter Sanchez Pdf

Explores the culturally complex and cosmopolitan histories and of islands off the African coast

Author : John Frederick Walker
Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-19
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781555849139

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Ivory's Ghosts by John Frederick Walker Pdf

“[A] tour de force examination of the history of ivory . . . and the demise of the elephant and human decency in the process of this unholy quest.” —The Huffington Post Praised for the nuance and sensitivity with which it approaches one of the most fraught conservation issues we face today, John Frederick Walker’s Ivory’s Ghosts tells the astonishing story of the power of ivory through the ages, and its impact on elephants. Long before gold and gemstones held allure, ivory came to be prized in every culture of the world—from ancient Egypt to nineteenth-century America to modern Japan—for its beauty, rarity, and ability to be finely carved. But the beauty came at an unfathomable cost. Walker lays bare the ivory trade’s cruel connection with the slave trade and the increasing slaughter of elephants in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. By the 1980s, elephant poaching reached levels that threatened the last great herds of the African continent, and led to a worldwide ban on the ancient international trade in tusks. But the ban has failed to stop poaching—or the emotional debate over what to do with the legitimate and growing stockpiles of ivory recovered from elephants that die of natural causes. “Ivory’s Ghost is essential reading for anyone concerned with conservation and with the tenuous future of one of the most magnificent creatures our earth has ever seen.” —George B. Schaller, author of A Naturalist and Other Beast

Author : H. A. Fraser (Captain.)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1871
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000579122

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The East African Slave Trade, and the Measures Proposed for Its Extinction as Viewed by Residents in Zanzibar by H. A. Fraser (Captain.) Pdf

Author : Gwyn Campbell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135759179

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Structure of Slavery in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia by Gwyn Campbell Pdf

The abolition of slavery in and around the Western Indian Ocean have been little studied. This collection examines the meaning of slavery and its abolition in relation to specific indigenous societies and to Islam, a religion that embraced the entire region, and draws comparisons between similar developments in the Atlantic system. Case studies include South Africa, Mauritius, Madagascar, the Benadir Coast, Arabia, the Persian Gulf and India. This volume marks an important new development in the study of slavery and its abolition in general, and an original approach to the history of slavery in the Indian Ocean and Asia regions.

Author : Robert Harms
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781541699663

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Land of Tears by Robert Harms Pdf

A prizewinning historian's epic account of the scramble to control equatorial Africa In just three decades at the end of the nineteenth century, the heart of Africa was utterly transformed. Virtually closed to outsiders for centuries, by the early 1900s the rainforest of the Congo River basin was one of the most brutally exploited places on earth. In Land of Tears, historian Robert Harms reconstructs the chaotic process by which this happened. Beginning in the 1870s, traders, explorers, and empire builders from Arabia, Europe, and America moved rapidly into the region, where they pioneered a deadly trade in ivory and rubber for Western markets and in enslaved labor for the Indian Ocean rim. Imperial conquest followed close behind. Ranging from remote African villages to European diplomatic meetings to Connecticut piano-key factories, Land of Tears reveals how equatorial Africa became fully, fatefully, and tragically enmeshed within our global world.