East Africa and the Indian Ocean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook East Africa and the Indian Ocean write by Edward A. Alpers. This book was released on 2009. East Africa and the Indian Ocean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "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.
The Indian Ocean Region
The Indian Ocean Region - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Indian Ocean Region write by Anthony H. Cordesman. This book was released on 2014-09-11. The Indian Ocean Region available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Indian Ocean Region (IOR) is one of the most areas of the world in human terms. This study provides a comprehensive overview of the subregions and countries in the IOR, drawing heavily on a new country risk assessment model developed by Abdullah Toukan, a senior associate with the Burke Chair at CSIS. It provides detailed graphs, tables, and maps covering the IOR as a whole, each major subregion, and each of the thirty-two countries in the region as well as the impact of U.S. and Chinese military forces.
Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World
Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World write by Gwyn Campbell. This book was released on 2016-12-19. Early Exchange between Africa and the Wider Indian Ocean World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Problems in the History of Modern Africa
Problems in the History of Modern Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Problems in the History of Modern Africa write by Robert O. Collins. This book was released on 1997. Problems in the History of Modern Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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 Maritime Cultures in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean
Early Maritime Cultures in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Early Maritime Cultures in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean write by Akshay Sarathi. This book was released on 2018-11-30. Early Maritime Cultures in East Africa and the Western Indian Ocean available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
