Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar - 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 Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar write by Abdul Sheriff. This book was released on 1987-09-30. Slaves, Spices and Ivory in Zanzibar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar
Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar - 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 Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar write by Abdul Sheriff. This book was released on 1987. Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule
Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule - 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 Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule write by Abdul Sheriff. This book was released on 1991. Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar
Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar - 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 Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar write by Abdul Sheriff. This book was released on 1987. Slaves, Spices, & Ivory in Zanzibar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Slaves of One Master
Slaves of One Master - 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 Slaves of One Master write by Matthew S. Hopper. This book was released on 2015-08-25. Slaves of One Master available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Matthew S. Hopper examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism. Whereas conventional historiography regards the Indian Ocean slave trade as fundamentally different from its Atlantic counterpart, Hopper’s study argues that both systems were influenced by global economic forces. The author goes on to dispute the triumphalist antislavery narrative that attributes the end of the slave trade between East Africa and the Persian Gulf to the efforts of the British Royal Navy, arguing instead that Great Britain allowed the inhuman practice to continue because it was vital to the Gulf economy and therefore vital to British interests in the region. Hopper’s book links the personal stories of enslaved Africans to the impersonal global commodity chains their labor enabled, demonstrating how the growing demand for workers created by a global demand for Persian Gulf products compelled the enslavement of these people and their transportation to eastern Arabia. His provocative and deeply researched history fills a salient gap in the literature on the African diaspora.
