9780520307537-0520307534-Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century

Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780520307537
ISBN-10: 0520307534
Edition: First Edition
Author: Edward A. Alpers
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 320 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780520307537
ISBN-10: 0520307534
Edition: First Edition
Author: Edward A. Alpers
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback 320 pages

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Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century (ISBN-13: 9780520307537 and ISBN-10: 0520307534), written by authors Edward A. Alpers, was published by University of California Press in 2022. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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Professor Shepperson says of this regional economic history of East Central Africa that it is a "refreshing combination of a scholarly survey of a relatively new field of African history and of a contribution to an important controversy on African underdevelopment."   Alpers has written a history of the penetration and changing character of international trade in East Central Africa from the fifteenth to the later nineteenth century. His study focuses on a vast and little known region that includes southern Tanzania, northern Mozambique, and Malawi, with extension north along the Swahili coast and west as far as the Lunda state of the Mwata Kazembe. He examines both the competition between traders and their internal impact on the various societies of East Central Africa.   Alpers' main concern is to demonstrate that the historical roots of underdevelopment in the area are to be found 'in the system of international trade which was initiated by Arabs in the fifteenth century, seized and extended by the Portuguese in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, dominated by a complex mixture of Indian, Arab and Western capitalisms in the nineteenth century'.   Thus this readable and original book places East African trading systems within the larger Western Indian Ocean system and in the world capitalist system.   This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1975.

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