Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule: Eastern African Studies

592 Pages·1991·2.94 MB·English

by  Abdul

Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule Eastern
title:
African Studies (London, England)
author: Sheriff, Abdul.; Ferguson, Ed.
publisher: Ohio University Press
isbn10 | asin:
print isbn13: 9780821440209
ebook isbn13: 9780585066646
language: English
subject Zanzibar--History, Social conflict--Zanzibar.
publication date: 1991
lcc: DT449.Z27Z36 1991eb
ddc: 967.8/1
subject: Zanzibar--History, Social conflict--Zanzibar.
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Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule
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EASTERN AFRICAN STUDIES
Abdul Sheriff
Slaves, Spices & Ivory in Zanzibar
Integration of an East African Commercial Empire
into the World Economy 17701873
Abdul Sheriff & Ed Ferguson (Editors)
Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule
Isaria N. Kimambo
Penetration & Protest in Tanzania
The Impact of the World Economy
on the Pare 18601960
T.L. Maliyamkono & M.S.D. Bagachwa
The Second Economy in Tanzania
Tabitha Kanogo
Squatters & the Roots of Mau Mau 19051963
David W. Throup
Economic & Social Origins of Mau Mau 19451953
Frank Furedi
The Mau Mau War in Perspective
David William Cohen & E. S. Atieno Odhiambo
Siaya
The Historical Anthropology of an African Landscape
Bruce Berman & John Lonsdale
Unhappy Valley*
Clan, Class &State in Colonial Kenya
Bruce Berman
Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya
The Dialectic of Domination
James. de Vere Allen
Swahili Origins*
Swahili Culture & the Shungwaya Phenomenon
Holger Bernt Hansen & Michael Twaddle (Editors)
Uganda Now
Changing Uganda*
Bahru Zewde
A History of Modern Ethiopia*
18551974
*forthcoming
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Zanzibar Under Colonial Rule
Edited by
Abdul Sheriff
Professor of History
University of Dar es Salaam
&
Ed Ferguson
Associate Professor of History
Oregon State University
James Currey
LONDON
Heinemann Kenya
NAIROBI
Historical Association of Tanzania
DAR ES SALAAM
Ohio University Press
ATHENS
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James Currey Ltd
54b Thornhill Square
Islington
London N1 1BE, England
Heinemann Kenya
Kijabe Street, PO Box 45314
Nairobi, Kenya
Historical Association of Tanzania
PO Box 35050, University of Dar es Salaam
Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Ohio University Press
Scott Quadrangle
Athens, Ohio 45701, USA
© Abdul Sheriff and Ed Ferguson, 1991
First published 1991
Map by Almac
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Zanzibar under colonial rule. - (Eastern Africa studies).
1. Tanzania. Zanzibar. Political events, history
I. Sheriff, Abdul II. Ferguson, Ed III. Series 967.81
ISBN 0-85255-080-4 (Paper)
ISBN 0-85255-081-2 (Cloth)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Zanzibar under colonial rule / edited by Abdul Sheriff & Ed Ferguson.
p. cm. (Eastern African studies)
Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.
ISBN 0-8214-0995-6 (cloth). ISBN `0-8214-0996-4 (pbk.)
1. ZanzibarHistory. 2. Social conflictZanzibar. I. Sheriff,
Abdul. II. Ferguson, Ed. IlL Series: Eastern African studies
(London, England)
DT449.Z27Z36 1991 90-25407
CIP
ISBN 0-8214-0996-4 (Ohio U.P. Paper)
ISBN 0-8214-0995-6 (Ohio U.P. Cloth)
Typeset in 10/11pt Baskerville by Opus 43, Cumbria
Printed and Bound in Great Britain by Villiers Publications, London
N6
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CONTENTS
Contributors vi
Illustrations vii
Preface ix
Introduction 1
A Materialist Approach to Zanzibar's History
Abdul Sheriff
Part One 9
Political Economy of Zanzibar
1 The Transition from Slavery, 18731914 11
Jacques Depelchin
2 The Formation of a Colonial Economy, 19151945 36
Ed Ferguson
3 The Struggle for Independence, 19461963 79
B.D.Bowles
Part Two 107
Class Formation
4 The Peasantry Under Imperialism, 18731963 109
Abdul Sheriff
5 The Decline of the Landlords, 18731963 141
J.R. Mlahagwa & A.J. Temu
6 The Contradictions of Merchant Capital, 18401939 163
Zinnat Bader
7 The Development of a Colonial Working Class 188
George Hadjivayanis & Ed Ferguson
8 The 1964 Revolution: Lumpen or Vanguard? 220
A.M. Babu
Conclusion 249
Abdul Sheriff
Bibliography 262
Index 271
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CONTRIBUTORS
A. M. Babu Former General Secretary of the Zanzibar Nationalist
Party, leader of the Umma Party, and a Minister in the Union
government for many years. Now a free-lance journalist in London.
Zinnat Bader (Ph.D., University of London) Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Sociology at the University of Nairobi.
B. D. Bowles (Ph.D., Makerere University) Taught history at the
University of Dar es Salaam, 19701976. Presently on the staff at the
College of St. Mark and St.John, Plymouth, England.
Jacques Depelchin (Ph.D., Stanford University) Taught history at the
University of Dar es Salaam, 19751979, and Eduardo Mondlane
University (Mozambique), 19801986. Now teaching in California.
Ed Ferguson (Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles) Taught
history at the University of Dar es Salaam, 19731979, and Oregon
State University, 19791991.
George Hadjivayanis (M.A., University of Dar es Salaam) A member
of the Department of Agriculture, Education and Extension at Sokoine
University of Agriculture. Working on a Ph.D. degree from the
University of Paris I, Pantheon-Sorbonne.
J. R. Mlahagwa (Ph.D., University of Dar es Salaam) Senior Lecturer
in History at the University of Dar es Salaam.
Abdul Sheriff (Ph.D., University of London) Professor of History at
the University of Dar es Salaam, where he has taught since 1969 and
has served as Head of the Department of History.
A.J. Temu (Ph.D., University of Alberta) Currently Professor and
Head, Department of History, University of Swaziland, and formerly