TY - BOOK
T1 - The First Sultan of Zanzibar. Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth Century Indian Ocean
AU - Nicolini, Beatrice
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Along the shores of the Indian Ocean, contacts and relations between the people of the Asian, Arabian and East African coasts were innumerable and stretched back to time immemorial. Such links and relationships of power were to be sought in those elements which constituted the close equilibrium of the Indian Ocean, that is, in the monsoons, the presence of commercial thalassocracies (the well known ‘merchant-states’), the predominance of mercantile laws, the trade routes of spices and ivory, in European desires for conquest of commercial monopolies, in the slave trade … in brief, in all those factors essential to the creation of multiple ties, of a “cultural bow” which would link three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa.
AB - Along the shores of the Indian Ocean, contacts and relations between the people of the Asian, Arabian and East African coasts were innumerable and stretched back to time immemorial. Such links and relationships of power were to be sought in those elements which constituted the close equilibrium of the Indian Ocean, that is, in the monsoons, the presence of commercial thalassocracies (the well known ‘merchant-states’), the predominance of mercantile laws, the trade routes of spices and ivory, in European desires for conquest of commercial monopolies, in the slave trade … in brief, in all those factors essential to the creation of multiple ties, of a “cultural bow” which would link three continents: Europe, Asia and Africa.
KW - Africa
KW - Indian Ocean
KW - Africa
KW - Indian Ocean
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10807/1711
M3 - Book
SN - 978-1-55876-5443
BT - The First Sultan of Zanzibar. Scrambling for Power and Trade in the Nineteenth Century Indian Ocean
PB - M. Wiener
ER -