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Abdul Sheriff analyses the early stages of the underdevelopment of
East Africa. The rise of Zanzibar was based on two major economic
transformations: firstly, slaves became used for the production of
cloves and grain for export, instead of the slaves themselves being
exported; secondly there was an increaseddemand for luxuries such
as ivory and Zanzibar took advantage of its strategic position to
trade as far as the Great Lakes. Yet this economic success
increasingly subordinated Zanzibar to Britain, with its
anti-slavery crusade andits control over the Indian merchant class.
North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
Follows on from the period covered in Abdul Sheriff's acclaimed
Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar. Zanzibar stands at the centre
of the Indian Ocean system's involvement in the history of Eastern
Africa. 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. In the second part the
authors analyse social classes and their role in the period
culminating in the insurrection of 1964. North America: Ohio U
Press; Tanzania: Historical Association of Tanzania
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.
The Indian Ocean was the first venue of global trade, connecting
the Mediterranean and South China Sea. Inspired by the insights of
Fernand Braudel, and by Michael Mollat, who saw it as 'a zone of
encounters and contacts ...a privileged crossroads of culture,'
this volume explores two inter-related themes. The first, on
oceanic linkages, presents the diversity of the peoples who have
traversed it and their relationships by tracing their tangible
movements and connections. The second, on the creation of new
societies, revisits better-known socio-historical phenomena - -
such as slavery, indentured labour, the Swahili language and Muslim
charity - - which tie the genesis of these social formations to the
seascape of an interconnected, transcultural ocean. The chapters
offer a broad and diverse view of the mobile, transregional
communities that comprise Indian Ocean society, while in-depth case
studies allow students and specialists to see how individual
research projects may contribute to developing a view of the Indian
Ocean as a transcultural arena, one in which individual societies
were and are shaped by their interactions with others from across
the waters. This volume will be suitable for courses in the
burgeoning fields of world history, transcultural anthropology and
the Indian Ocean.
Zanzibar Stone Town presents the problems of conservation in its
most acute forms. Should it be fossilised for the tourists? Or
should it grow for the benefit of the inhabitants? Can ways be
found to accommodate conflicting social and economic pressures? For
its size Zanzibar, like Venice, occupies a remarkably large
romantic space in world imagination. Swahili civilisation on these
spice islands goes back to the earliest centuries of the Islamic
era. Up until the nineteenth century it was the capital of a
trading empire which spread Kiswahili and Islam over a large part
of eastern and central African and the Indian Ocean. Zanzibar then
suffered the loss of its empire to the Germans and the British. In
the last thirty years it has passed through its second period of
crisis. After the Revolution of 1964 the new rural owners did not
have the wherewithal to maintain the old stone houses. The Stone
Town seemed to be on the verge of extinction. In the 1980s the
government reversed its policies and the old town became threatened
by rapid redevelopment which disfigures as it builds. The Old Stone
Town now stands in danger of being drastically transformed by
tourism and trade liberalisation.
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