Dhows & the colonial economy in Zanzibar : 1860-1970
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Dhows & the colonial economy in Zanzibar : 1860-1970
（Eastern African studies）
James Currey, 2004
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Graduate School of Asian and African Area Studies, Kyoto Universityアフリカ専攻
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: pbk ISBN 9780852554852
Description
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.
Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. This study argues that the dhow economy played a major role in shaping the economic and social lifeof colonial Zanzibar.
Dhows and the regional trade they fostered allowed a class of indigenous entrepreneurs to thrive in Zanzibar. These entrepreneurs, whose economic interests stretched across continents and colonial boundaries, were able to thwart or shape many of the colonial state's pet projects. Not only did steamships fail to drive out indigenous sailing craft, but in some cases dhows were able to drive the steamer out of specific market niches.
North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Zanzibar Gallery
Table of Contents
Introduction - The dhow in nineteenth-century Zanzibar - The creation of a colonial economy: dhows in a changing world, 1872-1914 - Cloves, dhows & steamers: the twentieth-century struggle between the state and the unofficial economy in Zanzibar - Mangrove poles & the long distance dhow trade in the colonial era - From definitions to deference: an overview of the dhow economy in colonial Zanzibar - Epilogue: dhows in the economy of twentieth-century Zanzibar.
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ISBN 9780852554869
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Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. This study argues that the dhow economy played a major role in shaping the economic and social lifeof colonial Zanzibar.
Dhows and the regional trade they fostered allowed a class of indigenous entrepreneurs to thrive in Zanzibar. These entrepreneurs, whose economic interests stretched across continents and colonial boundaries, were able to thwart or shape many of the colonial state's pet projects. Not only did steamships fail to drive out indigenous sailing craft, but in some cases dhows were able to drive the steamer out of specific market niches.
North America: Ohio U Press; Tanzania: Zanzibar Gallery
Table of Contents
Introduction - The dhow in nineteenth-century Zanzibar - The creation of a colonial economy: dhows in a changing world, 1872-1914 - Cloves, dhows & steamers: the twentieth-century struggle between the state and the unofficial economy in Zanzibar - Mangrove poles & the long distance dhow trade in the colonial era - From definitions to deference: an overview of the dhow economy in colonial Zanzibar - Epilogue: dhows in the economy of twentieth-century Zanzibar.
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