Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900

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Cover Half-title Series information Title page Copyright information Dedication Table of contents List of figures List of maps List of tables Acknowledgements 1 Introduction Indian Ocean World and Indian Ocean Africa Indian Ocean World Indian Ocean Africa Human-Environment Interaction Human-Environment Interaction and Periodisation Issues 2 Africa in the Making of an IOW Global Economy Early Economic Development in IOA Trans-IOW Trade Indian Ocean Africa’s Relations with the Wider IOW 3 Indian Ocean Africa in the First Great Upswing in the Indian Ocean World Global Economy, ca 300 bce to ca 300 ce Commodities and Personnel Indian Ocean Africa and the Monsoon Trade Network Egypt Axum The Horn of Africa Azania Coastal-Hinterland Trade 4 Economic Instability, ca 300 to ca 900 ce Human-Environment Interaction Indian Ocean Africa Egypt Axum Southern IOA Azanian History Revisited 5 The Second Great Boom in the IOW Global Economy ca 850 to 1250 and its Impact in Northern IOA The Upsurge in the IOW Global Economy Islam and the IOW Economy Northern IOA in the Second IOW Economic Upsurge Egypt and the IOW Global Economy Ethiopia and Sudan Islam in Northern IOA 6 Southern IOA and the Second Upsurge in the IOW Global Economy Environmental Factors The Swahili Civilisation “Great Zimbabwe” and Intra-Southern IOA Exchange The Malagasy Civilisation 7 Uncertainties and European Intrusion: The IOW Global Economy, 1300 to 1830 Human-Environmental Context in the Greater IOW, 1300 to 1500 IOA and the Environment, 1300 to 1500 Northern IOA Southern IOA European Impact, 1500 to 1800 The Environmental Context European Impact Mercantile Structures and Exchange Indian Ocean World Commercial Networks 8 The European Impact in Indian Ocean Africa, 1500 to 1830 Environmental Factors in Indian Ocean Africa Egypt Ethiopia Southern IOA European Impact in IOA IOA Economies Northern IOA Eastern and Southern IOA 9 The International Economy and Indian Ocean Africa The Environment IOA in the Long Nineteenth Century Environment Commercial Networks Northeast Africa East Africa and Madagascar The Expansion of the Indian IOA Commercial Network 10 Indigenous Modernisation in Indian Ocean Africa: Egypt, Imerina, and Ethiopia Education The Industrial Experiment Transport and Communication Secondary Imperialism Consequences Forced Labour Resistance The Economic Fallout 11 The Scramble for Indian Ocean Africa Developments in Europe Crisis of Indigenous Aristocracy Climate and Natural Disasters 12 Africa and Slavery in the Indian Ocean World The Context: Slavery Studies IOW Bondage Reassessed Nature of Bondage Race in IOW Slavery IOA and the Slave Trade The Zanj Revolt Enslavement in Highland Madagascar and the Swahili Slave Trade, 1500 to 1750 Servitude in Nineteenth-Century Indian Ocean Africa References Index