Twilight of an Industry in East Africa

2020-08-20 Business & Economics

Author : Katharine Frederick
Release : 2020-08-20
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Twilight of an Industry in East Africa by : Katharine Frederick

Download or read book Twilight of an Industry in East Africa written by Katharine Frederick. This book was released on 2020-08-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cotton textile industries vanished from much of East Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book investigates the underlying causes of industrial arrest in the region through a series of in-depth case studies. Findings are considered in light of existing studies on comparatively more resilient textile centers elsewhere on the continent to derive insights into the determinants of differing industrial trajectories across sub-Saharan Africa. The author argues that scholars have placed undue weight on global forces as the primary drivers of industrial decline in the Global South. Rather, this book reveals how local factors – principally demographic, geographic, and institutional features – interacted with external forces to influence unique regional outcomes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as sub-Saharan African was increasingly integrated into global trade networks and European colonial empires.

On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

2022-08-04 History

Author : Philip Gooding
Release : 2022-08-04
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 742/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World by : Philip Gooding

Download or read book On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World written by Philip Gooding. This book was released on 2022-08-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth century.

Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s–1914

2022-11-07 History

Author : Andreas Greiner
Release : 2022-11-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 703/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s–1914 by : Andreas Greiner

Download or read book Human Porterage and Colonial State Formation in German East Africa, 1880s–1914 written by Andreas Greiner. This book was released on 2022-11-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the role of caravan transport and human porterage in the colony of German East Africa (present-day mainland Tanzania, Rwanda, and Burundi). With caravan mobility being of pivotal importance to colonial rule during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the exploration of vernacular transport and its governance during this period sheds new light on the trajectories of colonial statehood. The author addresses key questions such as the African resilience to colonial interventions, the issue of labor recruitment, and the volatility of colonial infrastructure. This book unveils a fundamental contradiction in the way that German administrators dealt with precolonial modes of transport in East Africa. While colonizers championed for the abolishment of caravan transport, they strongly depended on porters in the absence of pack animals or railways. To bring this contradiction to the fore, the author studies the shifting role of caravans in East Africa during the era of ‘high imperialism.’ Uncovering the extent to which porters and caravan entrepreneurs challenged and shaped colonial policymaking, this book provides an insightful read for historians studying German Empire and African history, as well as those interested in the history of transport and infrastructure.

Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves

2023-02-07 History

Author : Gunja SenGupta
Release : 2023-02-07
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 131/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Sojourners, Sultans, and Slaves written by Gunja SenGupta. This book was released on 2023-02-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In the nineteenth century, global systems of capitalism and empire knit the North Atlantic and Indian Ocean worlds into international networks in contest over the meanings of slavery and freedom. Sojourners, Sultans, and "Slaves" mines multinational archives; profiles transnational human rights campaigns; shows how the discourses of poverty, kinship, and care could be adapted to defend servitude in different parts of the world; and reveals the tenuous boundaries that such discourses shared with Whiggish contractual notions of freedom. An intercontinental cast of empire builders and émigrés, slavers and reformers, a "cotton queen" and courtesans, and fugitive "slaves" and concubines populate the pages, fleshing out on a granular level the interface between the personal, domestic, and international politics of "slavery in the East," and in the age of empire. By extending the transnational framework of U.S. slavery and abolition histories beyond the Atlantic, Gunja SenGupta and Awam Amkpa recover vivid stories and prompt reflections on the comparative workings of subaltern agency"--

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