Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule

by Abdul Sheriff, Ed Ferguson, Ed Sherif, Abdul & Ferguson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821409964
• ISBN13: 9780821409961
• Release Date: July 1991
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 288 Pages