 | A History of the Arab State of Zanzibar Subjects: Area Studies; Humanities; Middle East Studies; History; Cultural Studies; Middle East Culture; Middle East History; Middle East Politics; Middle East Society; World/ International History; Modern History 1750-1945; Contemporary History 1945-; Imperial & Colonial History; Social & Cultural History; During the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the fertile islands of Zanzibar and Pemba became of central importance to East Africa's growing contact with the international economy as the ruling dynasty encouraged trade in cloves, slaves and ivory. This book, first published in 1978, provides an account of the history of Zanzibar from those early days of trade up to independence and the Revolution that removed the Arab ruling class in 1964. |
