Search Results - "Zanzibar"

Zanzibar : tradition and revolution / by Martin, Esmond Bradley

Urban design, chaos, and colonial power in Zanzibar by Bissell, William Cunningham, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: landscapes of power and planning -- Cosmopolitan lives, urbane worlds: space and society in Zanzibar City -- Uncertain states: colonial practices and the ambiguities of power -- Colonial cartographies: struggling to make sense of urban space -- Disease, environment, and social engineering: clearing out and cleaning up the colonial city -- Development and the dilemmas of expertise -- Failures of implementation: circularity and secrecy in the pursuit of planning -- Disorder by design: legal confusion and bureaucratic chaos in colonial planning -- Conclusion: reflections on planning, colonial power, and continuities in the present.…”
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War of words, war of stones racial thought and violence in colonial Zanzibar / by Glassman, Jonathon

Subjects: “…Violence Tanzania Zanzibar History.…”
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Trade and empire in Muscat and Zanzibar roots of British domination / by Bhacker, M. Reda (Mohamed Reda), 1955-

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Indian Ocean slavery in the age of abolition /

Table of Contents: “…Deeds of freed slaves: manumission and economic and social mobility in pre-abolition Zanzibar /…”
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Domestic violence and the law in colonial and postcolonial Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Child marriage and domestic violence : Islamic and colonial discourses on gender relations and female status in Zanzibar, 1900-1950s /…”
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Aspects of colonial Tanzania history by Mbogoni, Lawrence E. Y.

Table of Contents: “…Affairs of the heart in Colonial Zanzibar -- pt. 4. Slavery and politics in Colonial Zanzibar.…”
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Abolitionism and imperialism in Britain, Africa, and the Atlantic /

Table of Contents: “…Morgan -- Emperors of the world : British abolitionism and imperialism / Seymour Drescher -- Abolition and imperialism : international law and the British suppression of the Atlantic slave trade / Robin Law -- Racial violence, universal history, and echoes of abolition in twentieth-century Zanzibar / Jonathon Glassman.…”
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Uncovering the history of Africans in Asia

Table of Contents: “…Collins -- The Makran-Baluch-African network in Zanzibar and East-Africa during the XIX century / Beatrice Nicolini -- Somali migration to Yemen from the 19th to the 21st centuries / Leila Ingrams & Richard Panhurst -- Nineteenth century European references to the African diaspora in the Arabian peninsula / Clifford Pereira -- Migrant and the Maldives : African connections / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya -- The African native in Indiaspora / Jeanette Pinto -- Migrants and mercenaries : Sri Lanka's hidden Africans / Shihan de Silva Jayasuriya.…”
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Beyond the state : The colonial medical service in British Africa /

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Beyond the state -- Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: looking beyond the state: Anna Greenwood -- 2 Crossing the divide: medical missionaries and government service in Uganda, 1897-1940: Yolana Pringle -- 3 The government medical service and British missions in colonial Malawi, c.1891-1940: crucial collaboration, hidden conflicts: Markku Hokkanen -- 4 The maintenance of hegemony: the short history of Indian doctors in the Colonial Medical Service, British East Africa: Anna Greenwood and Harshad Topiwala -- 5 The Colonial Medical Service and the struggle for control of the Zanzibar Maternity Association, 1918-47: Anna Greenwood -- 6 Elder Dempster and the transport of lunatics in British West Africa: Matthew M. …”
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Africa in the time of cholera a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / by Echenberg, Myron J.

Table of Contents: “…Cholera ravages Sub-Saharan Africa: Senegambia, Ethiopia, and Zanzibar, 1821-1894; 4. Cholera in North Africa and the Nile Valley: Tunisia, 1835-1868, and Egypt, 1823-1947; Part II. …”
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Sex, power and slavery /

Table of Contents: “…Klein -- Sex and power in the Russian institutions of slavery and serfdom / Richard Hellie -- Concubinage, law, and the family Suria: concubine or secondary slave wife? The case of Zanzibar in the nineteenth century / Abdul Sheriff -- A sexual order in the making: wives and slaves in early imperial China / Griet Vankeerberghen -- "To marry one's slave is as easy as eating a meal": the dynamics of carnal relations within Saharan slavery / E. …”
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