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Slaves, spices, & ivory in Zanzibar : integration of an East African commercial empire into the world economy, 1770-1873
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ISBN: 0821440217 0585055912 9780585055916 9781782047773 9780821440216 0821408712 9780821408711 0821408720 9780821408728 0852550146 9780852550144 0852550154 9780852550151 1782047778 9781782049784 Year: 1987 Publisher: London : Athens : J. Currey ; Ohio University Press,


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Slaves, spices, & ivory in Zanzibar : integration of an East African commercial empire into the world economy, 1770-1873
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ISBN: 1782049789 Year: 1987 Publisher: London : James Currey,

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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 increased demand 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 and its control over the Indian merchant class.

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The world of the Swahili : an African mercantile civilization.
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ISBN: 0300052197 Year: 1992 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) : Yale university press,


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Capitalism and Cloves : An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar
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ISBN: 9781441984715 1441984704 9781441984708 1441984712 Year: 2015 Publisher: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,

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This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in global historical archaeology. Broadening plantation archaeology beyond the Atlantic World, this work addresses plantations run by Omani Arab colonial rulers of Zanzibar. Drawing on archaeological and historical data, this book argues for the need to examine non-Western contexts of colonialism and capitalism as coeval with those in the North Atlantic World. This work explores themes of capitalism, colonialism, plantation landscapes, African Diaspora communities, gender and sexuality, locally produced and imported goods in historic contexts, and Islamic historical archaeology.

Pastimes and politics : culture, community, and identity in post-abolition urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945
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ISBN: 082141383X 9780821413838 0821413848 9780821413845 0852557957 9780852557952 0852557965 9780852557969 Year: 2001 Publisher: Athens Oxford [England] Ohio University Press J. Currey

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"The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of island residents were in an incredible flux framed by the abolition of slavery, the introduction of colonialism, and a tide of urban migration. Pastimes and Politics explores the era from the perspective of the urban poor, highlighting the numerous and varied ways that recently freed slaves and other immigrants to town struggled to improve their individual and collective lives and to create a sense of community in the new environment. In this study Laura Fair explores a range of cultural and social practices that gave expression to slaves' ideas of emancipation, and describes how such ideas and practices were gendered."--Jacket.


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Transition from slavery in Zanzibar and Mauritius
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ISBN: 2869787308 9782869787308 9782869786806 2869786808 Year: 2016 Publisher: Dakar, Senegal : CODESRIA,


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Popobawa : Tanzanian Talk, Global Misreadings
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ISBN: 9780253024497 9780253024565 9780253024619 0253024617 0253024498 0253024560 Year: 2017 Publisher: Bloomington, Indiana ; Indianapolis, Indiana : Indiana University Press,

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Sex customs --- Tanzanians --- Animals, Mythical --- Demonology --- Public opinion --- Swahili language --- Attitudes. --- Sexual behavior --- Discourse analysis. --- Zanzibar --- Social life and customs. --- Opinion, Public --- Perception, Public --- Popular opinion --- Public perception --- Public perceptions --- Judgment --- Social psychology --- Attitude (Psychology) --- Focus groups --- Reputation --- Demonology, Christian --- Demons --- Evil spirits --- Spirits --- Spiritual warfare --- Creatures, Fabled --- Fabled creatures --- Fabulous animals --- Fabulous creatures --- Fantastic animals --- Fictitious animals --- Imaginary animals --- Legendary animals --- Mythical animals --- Zoological mythology --- Animals --- Dragons --- Ethnology --- Customs, Sex --- Human beings --- Sexual practices --- Manners and customs --- Moral conditions --- Sex --- Kiswahili language --- Suaheli language --- Bantu languages --- Mythology --- Zanzibar Protectorate --- Zanzibar Executive --- Zanguebar --- Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar --- SMZ --- S.M.Z. --- Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar --- Serikali ya Mapinduzi Zanzibar --- Zanjibār --- Zanzibar (Tanzania) --- Zengibar --- Tanzania --- Attitudes --- Discourse analysis --- Social life and customs --- Sex customs - Tanzania - Zanzibar - Attitudes --- Tanzanians - Sexual behavior - Attitudes --- Animals, Mythical - Tanzania - Zanzibar --- Demonology - Tanzania - Zanzibar --- Public opinion - Tanzania - Zanzibar --- Swahili language - Discourse analysis --- Zanzibar - Social life and customs


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Tippu Tip : ivory, slavery and discovery in the scramble for Africa
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ISBN: 9781911487050 Year: 2017 Publisher: Surbiton Medina Publishing

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Tippu Tip, notorious to some, intriguing to others, was a Zanzibari Arab trader living in the turbulent and rapidly changing Africa of the late 19th century. This biography transports the reader into his extraordinary world, describing its exotic cast of characters and the principal factors that shaped it. His colorful life culminated in his engagement as governor of a province in the 'Congo Free State' of the Belgian King Leopold, and in his involvement in Stanley's astonishing expedition to relieve Emin Pasha, governor of the Egyptian southern province of Equatoria. This book is the first thorough investigation in English of this significant figure. The lucid narrative unfolds against the political and economic backdrop of European and American commercial aims, while allowing the reader to see the period through African and Arab eyes. The fascinating figures who strutted the 19th-century African stage, and their hardly believable exploits, give this book an appeal reaching beyond the African specialist to the general reader.

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Merchants --- Plantation owners --- Slaveholders --- Slave traders --- Tippu Tip, --- Congo (Democratic Republic) --- Zanzibar --- History --- Slave dealers --- Slavers --- Traders, Slave --- Persons --- Slave holders --- Slave masters --- Slave owners --- Slavemasters --- Slaveowners --- Slavery --- Owners of plantations --- Planters (Persons) --- Landowners --- Businesspeople --- Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad, --- Hamed bin Mohammed, --- Hamed bin Muhammed el Murjebi, --- Hamid bin Muḥammad bin Jumʻah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saʻīd al-Murjabi, --- Ḥāmid ibn Muḥammad, --- Hamid, Muhammed bin, --- Hemed bin Muhammad el Murjebi, --- Mohammed, Hamed bin, --- Muḥammad, Ḥāmid ibn, --- Muhammed bin Hamid, --- Murjabi, Hamid bin Muḥammad bin Jumʻah bin Rajab bin Muḥammad bin Saʻīd, --- Murjebi, Hamed bin Muhammed el, --- Murjībī, Ḥamad ibn Muḥammad, --- Tīb, Tībū, --- Tib, Tippoo, --- Tib, Tippu, --- Tībū Tīb, --- Tip, Tippo, --- Tip, Tippu, --- Tippo Tip, --- Tippoo Tib, --- Tippu Tib, --- Tipu Tipu, --- حمد بن محمد بن جمعة بن رجب بن محمد بن سعيد المرجبي, --- Zanzibar Protectorate --- Zanzibar Executive --- Zanguebar --- Serikali ya Mapinduzi ya Zanzibar --- SMZ --- S.M.Z. --- Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar --- Serikali ya Mapinduzi Zanzibar --- Zanjibār --- Zanzibar (Tanzania) --- Zengibar --- Tanzania --- Congo (Kinshasa) --- Congo (Leopoldville) --- Congo DR --- Democratic Republic of Congo --- Democratic Republic of the Congo --- Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo --- DR Congo --- DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo) --- DRK (Demokraticheskai︠a︡ Respublika Kongo) --- Kongo --- RD Congo --- R.D. Congo --- RDC (République démocratique du Congo) --- Republic of Congo (Leopoldville) --- Republic of the Congo (Leopoldville) --- République démocratique du Congo --- République du Congo (Leopoldville) --- Belgian Congo --- Zaire --- Commerce --- Enslavers --- Tippu Tip

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