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Book SynopsisIn 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.
Trade ReviewThis agreeably written and copiously illustrated book deserves a wide audience, especially from maritime historians and those studying the East African coast. -- Michael Pearson * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MARITIME HISTORY *
In this welcome book Erik Gilbert addresses the history of the dhow from 1860 to 1970... a much-needed study of a neglected area of maritime history and will be a vital part of any maritime historian's library and initiates a number of elegantly argued debates that will provoke us for a long time. -- Kenneth McPherson * INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY *
Professor Gilbert of Arkansas State University presents a colourful narrative on the long drawn out economic warfare which lasted throughout the colonial period. * NEW HISTORY *
...an interesting and pleasingly slim and accessible volume -- Ashley Jackson * TANZANIAN AFFAIRS *
...presents a convincing, practical analysis of the considerations that led to the success of the dhow in the Zanzibar economy and tells an interesting tale in an interesting manner. * ROYAL SOCIETY OF ASIAN AFFAIRS *
... a valuable and welcome contribution to the literature on both Zanzibar and East Africa, as well as the growing body of literature on the Indian Ocean world. ...Clearly this volume is an excellent resource for scholars as well as a useful, thought provoking text for any graduate or undergraduate seminar. * ITINERARIO *
Cette brillante etude constitue la biographie passionnante d'un objet etroitement lie a un art de vivre. - -- Danielle de Lame * JOURNAL DES AFRICANISTES *
Table of ContentsIntroduction - 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.
