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Book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters

Download or read book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters written by Captain G.L. Sullivan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-03 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A useful guide to the state of the slave trade in 1850 and how the trade increased from then until 1873 when up to three times the amount of slaves were being traded. First published in 1873.

Book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa  Narrative of Five Year s Experiences in the Suppression of the Slave Trade  With Map and Illustrations  Etc

Download or read book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa Narrative of Five Year s Experiences in the Suppression of the Slave Trade With Map and Illustrations Etc written by George L. Sulivan and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 558 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa

Download or read book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa written by G. L. Sulivan and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters

Download or read book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters written by G. L. Sulivan and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa

Download or read book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters and on the Eastern Coast of Africa written by George Lydiard Sulivan and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters

Download or read book Dhow Chasing in Zanzibar Waters written by G. L. Sulivan and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tanzania

Download or read book Tanzania written by Andrew Coulson and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-25 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives an account of the political economy of Tanzania, from pre-colonial times to the present. It shows the strengths and weaknesses of Julius Nyerere, the leader who brought the country to Independence in 1961. A new introductory chapter sets the book in context and discusses current issues such as natural resources.

Book Slaves of One Master

    Book Details:
  • Author : Matthew S. Hopper
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2015-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300192010
  • Pages : 319 pages

Download or read book Slaves of One Master written by Matthew S. Hopper and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew S. Hopper's wide-ranging history of the African diaspora and slavery in Arabia in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries examines the interconnected themes of enslavement, globalization, and empire, and challenges previously held conventions regarding Middle Eastern slavery and British imperialism. Linking the personal stories of enslaved Africans to the impersonal global commodity chains their labor enabled, this provocative and deeply researched study contradicts the conventional historiography that regards the Indian Ocean slave trade as fundamentally different from its Atlantic counterpart and disputes the triumphalist antislavery narrative that attributes the end of the East African–Persian Gulf slave trade to the efforts of the British Royal Navy.

Book Ocean highways  the geographical record  ed  by C R  Markham  Ocean highways  the geographical review  Vol  1  continued as  The Geographical magazine

Download or read book Ocean highways the geographical record ed by C R Markham Ocean highways the geographical review Vol 1 continued as The Geographical magazine written by sir Clements Robert Markham and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book  Framing the Ocean  1700 to the Present

Download or read book Framing the Ocean 1700 to the Present written by Tricia Cusack and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the eighteenth century, the ocean was regarded as a repulsive and chaotic deep. Despite reinvention as a zone of wonder and pleasure, it continued to be viewed in the West and elsewhere as ?uninhabited?, empty space. This collection, spanning the eighteenth century to the present, recasts the ocean as ?social space?, with particular reference to visual representations. Part I focuses on mappings and crossings, showing how the ocean may function as a liminal space between places and cultures but also connects and imbricates them. Part II considers ships as microcosmic societies, shaped for example by the purpose of the voyage, the mores of shipboard life, and cross-cultural encounters. Part III analyses narratives accreted to wrecks and rafts, what has sunk or floats perilously, and discusses attempts to recuperate plastic flotsam. Part IV plumbs ocean depths to consider how underwater creatures have been depicted in relation to emergent disciplines of natural history and museology, how mermaids have been reimagined as a metaphor of feminist transformation, and how the symbolism of coral is deployed by contemporary artists. This engaging and erudite volume will interest a range of scholars in humanities and social sciences, including art and cultural historians, cultural geographers, and historians of empire, travel, and tourism.

Book The Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Frank Charles Bowen
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1927
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 314 pages

Download or read book The Sea written by Frank Charles Bowen and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Indian Ocean in World History

Download or read book The Indian Ocean in World History written by Edward A. Alpers and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-31 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Indian Ocean remains the least studied of the world's geographic regions. Yet there have been major cultural exchanges across its waters and around its shores from the third millennium B.C.E. to the present day. Historian Edward A. Alpers explores the complex issues involved in cultural exchange in the Indian Ocean Rim region over the course of this long period of time by combining a historical approach with the insights of anthropology, art history, ethnomusicology, and geography. The Indian Ocean witnessed several significant diasporas during the past two millennia, including migrations of traders, indentured laborers, civil servants, sailors, and slaves throughout the entire basin. Persians and Arabs from the Gulf came to eastern Africa and Madagascar as traders and settlers, while Hadramis dispersed from south Yemen as traders and Muslim teachers to the Comoro Islands, Zanzibar, South India, and Indonesia. Southeast Asians migrated to Madagascar, and Chinese dispersed from Southeast Asia to the Mascarene Islands to South Africa. Alpers also explores the cultural exchanges that diasporas cause, telling stories of identity and cultural transformation through language, popular religion, music, dance, art and architecture, and social organization. For example, architectural and decorative styles in eastern Africa, the Red Sea, the Hadramaut, the Persian Gulf, and western India reflect cultural interchanges in multiple directions. Similarly, the popular musical form of taarab in Zanzibar and coastal East Africa incorporates elements of Arab, Indian, and African musical traditions, while the characteristic frame drum (ravanne) of séga, the widespread Afro-Creole dance of the Mascarene and Seychelles Islands, probably owes its ultimate origins to Arabia by way of Mozambique. The Indian Ocean in World History also discusses issues of trade and production that show the long history of exchange throughout the Indian Ocean world; politics and empire-building by both regional and European powers; and the role of religion and religious conversion, focusing mainly on Islam, but also mentioning Hinduism, Buddhism and Christianity. Using a broad geographic perspective, the book includes references to connections between the Indian Ocean world and the Americas. Moving into the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Alpers looks at issues including the new configuration of colonial territorial boundaries after World War I, and the search for oil reserves.

Book Captured at Sea

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jatin Dua
  • Publisher : University of California Press
  • Release : 2019-12-10
  • ISBN : 0520305191
  • Pages : 259 pages

Download or read book Captured at Sea written by Jatin Dua and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How is it possible for six men to take a Liberian-flagged oil tanker hostage and negotiate a huge pay out for the return of its crew and 2.2 million barrels of crude oil? In his gripping new book, Jatin Dua answers this question by exploring the unprecedented upsurge in maritime piracy off the coast of Somalia in the twenty-first century. Taking the reader inside pirate communities in Somalia, onboard multinational container ships, and within insurance offices in London, Dua connects modern day pirates to longer histories of trade and disputes over protection. In our increasingly technological world, maritime piracy represents not only an interruption, but an attempt to insert oneself within the world of oceanic trade. Captured at Sea moves beyond the binaries of legal and illegal to illustrate how the seas continue to be key sites of global regulation, connectivity, and commerce today.

Book Memoir of Captain Prescot William Stephens

Download or read book Memoir of Captain Prescot William Stephens written by Benjamin Arthur Heywood and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Physical Geography of the Sea

Download or read book The Physical Geography of the Sea written by M. Maury and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-30 with total page 550 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1874.

Book Cracks in the Dome  Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum  1897 1964

Download or read book Cracks in the Dome Fractured Histories of Empire in the Zanzibar Museum 1897 1964 written by Sarah Longair and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-09 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of the most monumental and recognisable landmarks from Zanzibar’s years as a British Protectorate, the distinctive domed building of the Zanzibar Museum (also known as the Beit al-Amani or Peace Memorial Museum) is widely known and familiar to Zanzibaris and visitors alike. Yet the complicated and compelling history behind its construction and collection has been overlooked by historians until now. Drawing on a rich and wide range of hitherto unexplored archival, photographic, architectural and material evidence, this book is the first serious investigation of this remarkable institution. Although the museum was not opened until 1925, this book traces the longer history of colonial display which culminated in the establishment of the Zanzibar Museum. It reveals the complexity of colonial knowledge production in the changing political context of the twentieth century British Empire and explores the broad spectrum of people from diverse communities who shaped its existence as staff, informants, collectors and teachers. Through vivid narratives involving people, objects and exhibits, this book exposes the fractures, contradictions and tensions in creating and maintaining a colonial museum, and casts light on the conflicted character of the ’colonial mission’ in eastern Africa.

Book Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean

Download or read book Dhow Cultures of the Indian Ocean written by Abdul Sheriff and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2024-05-30 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wooden dhow, with its characteristic lateen sail, is an appropriate icon for the early trading world of the Indian Ocean. It was based on free trade unhindered by monopolies or superpower domination and pre-dated ‘globalisation’ by thousands of years. It carried a motley crew of sailors, traders and passengers, and many commodities, but the dhow was not merely an inanimate transporter of goods and people, but an animated means of social interaction. The dhow was at the mercy of the seasonal monsoons, but mercifully this very fact multiplied opportunities for social interaction between the sailors and traders with their hosts around the rim of the Indian Ocean, giving birth to cosmopolitan populations and cultures. The dhow was thus a vehicle for a genuine dialog between civilisations. The global world of the Indian Ocean had matured by the fifteenth century. Islam was the most widespread religion along its rim, but it had spread not by the sword but through peaceful commerce. The heroes of this world were not the continental empires but a string of small port city-states, from Kilwa in East Africa to Melaka in Malaysia. Nor was their influence confined to the littoral, but penetrated deep into continental hinterlands economically, socially and culturally. Into this world two major incursions occurred from opposite directions, the Chinese expeditions in the early fifteenth century and the Portuguese at the end of it. The contrast could not have been more stark between the Indian Ocean tradition of free trade that the Chinese espoused, despite their enormous strength, and the Vasco da Gama epoch of armed mercantilism that ultimately led to colonial domination. This sweeping and vividly written popular history of the dhow cultures contains dozens of color illustrations and many maps and is set to become the benchmark history of the early Indian Ocean.