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

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