Author: Charles Cornelius Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781461166160 Category : Languages : en Pages : 104
Book Description
The history of the Swahili coast is laced with political intrigue, scandal, international commerce, war, invasion and terrorism. Stretching from Somalia in the north, through Kenya and Tanzania, to Mozambique in the south and to the great offshore islands of the coast, it is home to the Swahili people, a unique blend of Arab, African and Persian, whose story stretches back more than two thousand years and which forms the backdrop to one of Africa's oldest and greatest civilizations. Drawing on archaeology, the civic chronicles of the Swahili towns and accounts of the coast written by explorers, traders and colonialists from as far afield as Italy, China and Britain, this illustrated book tells the story of the Swahili coast. Moving from the slave markets and clove plantations of Zanzibar, to the stone towns of the Lamu Archipelago, to the fight for control of Mombasa and its great bastion, Fort Jesus, it tells the stories of Zanzibar sultans, Swahili traders, Portuguese conquerors and Christian missionaries.
Author: Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville Publisher: David Philip Publishers ISBN: Category : Africa, East Languages : en Pages : 344
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This book is a compilation of documents throughout history which discuss the East African Coast. Authors of these documents include figures such as Claudius Ptolemy, Marco Polo, and Vasco da Gama.
Author: Robert M. Maxon Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 348
Book Description
"East Africa: An Introductory History documents the transformation of East Africa from the Stone Age to the first decade of the twenty-first century. The book is ideal for any reader interested in unraveling the intricate history of East Africa, and especially for students coming to the study of this region for the first time."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Benson Okello Publisher: ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 276
Book Description
This is a summary of East African history from pre-1500 to the 1960s, and independence. Topics covered: early migration and settlement and pastoralism in early societies; the costal towns and trade; Islam in East Africa and the rise of Swahili culture; the Portuguese in East Africa; Omani power; Buganda and other East African peoples; the Ngoni invasion; internal trade; the slave trade and European missionaries and trade in East Africa; British conquest and occupation, the establishment and reactions to colonial rule; Tanganyika; Zanzibar and the British; the British and the Ugandan railways and indirect rule in Uganda; the effects of the First World War and subsequent economic, social and constitutional development.
Author: R.W. Beachey Publisher: I.B. Tauris ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 508
Book Description
1. Early English contacts with East Africa; 2. The French, Zanzibar and Muscat; 3. European exploration of East Africa; 4. The first partition of East Africa and establishment of the IBEAC; 5. The relief of Emin Pasha and the race for Uganda; 6. Lugard and Uganda and German East Africa; 7. Demise of the IBEAC; 8. Pax Britannica in Uganda; 9. East Africa under HMG; 10. Transport and communications; 11. The Indians in East Africa; 12. Sir Harry Johnston and Uganda; 13. White man's country.
Author: Finbarr Barry Flood Publisher: John Wiley & Sons ISBN: 1119068576 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 1448
Book Description
The two-volume Companion to Islamic Art and Architecture bridges the gap between monograph and survey text by providing a new level of access and interpretation to Islamic art. The more than 50 newly commissioned essays revisit canonical topics, and include original approaches and scholarship on neglected aspects of the field. This two-volume Companion showcases more than 50 specially commissioned essays and an introduction that survey Islamic art and architecture in all its traditional grandeur Essays are organized according to a new chronological-geographical paradigm that remaps the unprecedented expansion of the field and reflects the nuances of major artistic and political developments during the 1400-year span The Companion represents recent developments in the field, and encourages future horizons by commissioning innovative essays that provide fresh perspectives on canonical subjects, such as early Islamic art, sacred spaces, palaces, urbanism, ornament, arts of the book, and the portable arts while introducing others that have been previously neglected, including unexplored geographies and periods, transregional connectivities, talismans and magic, consumption and networks of portability, museums and collecting, and contemporary art worlds; the essays entail strong comparative and historiographic dimensions The volumes are accompanied by a map, and each subsection is preceded by a brief outline of the main cultural and historical developments during the period in question The volumes include periods and regions typically excluded from survey books including modern and contemporary art-architecture; China, Indonesia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Sicily, the New World (Americas)
Author: Moses D. E. Nwulia Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers ISBN: 9780914478119 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 236
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This text reviews documents to evaluate Britain's claim that it had a prominent role in the extinction of slavery and the slave trade in East Africa. It demonstrates that the moral imperative for an abolitionist policy was often subordinated in favour of material wealth and imperial strength.
Author: Charles Cornelius
Author: Greville Stewart Parker Freeman-Grenville
Author: Robert M. Maxon
Author: Robert M. Maxon
Author: Kenneth Ingham 
Author: G. S. P. Freeman-Grenville
Author: Benson Okello
Author: R.W. Beachey
Author: Finbarr Barry Flood
Author: Moses D. E. Nwulia