[PDF] The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa Writen By John C. Wilkinson
The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa
This book examines the history of the European Scramble for Africa from the perspective of the Omanis and other Arabs in East Africa. It will be of interest not only to African specialists, but also those working on the Middle East, where awareness is now emerging that the history of those settled on the southern peripheries of Arabia has been intimately entwined with Indian Ocean maritime activities since pre-Islamic times. The nineteenth century, however, saw these maritime borderlands being increasingly drawn into a new world economy, one of whose effects was the development of an ivory front in the interior of the continent that, by the 1850s, led the Omanis and Swahili to establish themselves on the Upper Congo. A reconstruction of their history and their interaction with Europeans is a major theme of this book. European colonial rivalries in Africa is not a subject in vogue today, while the Arabs are still largely viewed as invaders and slavers. The fact that the British
Product details: The Arabs and the Scramble for Africa
Author : John C. Wilkinson
Pages : 384 pages
Publisher : Equinox Publishing (Indonesia)
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ISBN-10 : 178179068X
ISBN-13 : 9781781790687
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