Dhows & the colonial economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970 /

Main Author: Gilbert, Erik
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, England : Zanzibar, TZ : Athens, OH : Nairobi, KE : James Currey ; Gallery Pulications ; Ohio University Press ; EAEP, 2004.
Series:Eastern African studies
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. The dhow trade in nineteenth-century Zanzibar
  • 3. The creation of a colonial economy : dhows in a changing world 1872-1914
  • 4. Cloves, dhows & steamers : the twentieth-century struggle between the official & unofficial economies in Zanzibar
  • 5. Mangrove poles & the long-distance dhow trade in the colonial era
  • 6. From definitions to deference : an overview of the dhow economy in colonial Zanzibar
  • 7. Epilogue : dhows in the economy of independent Zanzibar.