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Michael Pearson... provides us with a fascinating collection of anecdotes, data, and quotations. We travel with him through a range of debates about world systems, littoral societies, [and] the meaning of world history.
A deeply researched, attractively presented, and question-raising book.
Pearson, a distinguished scholar of South Asia and Portuguese expansion, boldly takes on the complex history of coastal East Africa during an especially dramatic period that witnessed the coming together of two major pre-modern world systems.
Michael Pearson has put together an imaginative and yet solidly grounded book about the east African coast extending for 1,500 miles from Mogadish to Delagoa Bay.
This book is valuable, well written, and clearly argued, with a refreshing sense of excitement at new interpretations... [It is] a pleasure to read for both its content and its style, and his elegantly argued and wide view of the trading system of the Afrasiatic Sea.
This intellectually stimulating and thought-provoking publication is recommended as essential reading for historians, anthropologists, and all those interested in the history of social, economic, and political formations in the Indian Ocean basin and the Swahili world.
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Book Details
Publication Date
Status
Available
Trim Size
6
x 9
Pages
216
ISBN
9780801872426
Illustration Description
7 b&w illus., 2 maps
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction: Locating Coastal East Africa
Chapter 2. The Swahili Coast in the Afrasian Sea
Chapter 3. The Swahili Coast and the Interior
Chapter 4. East Africa in the World
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Introduction: Locating Coastal East Africa
Chapter 2. The Swahili Coast in the Afrasian Sea
Chapter 3. The Swahili Coast and the Interior
Chapter 4. East Africa in the World-Economy
Chapter 5. The Portuguese on the Coast
Chapter 6. Conclusion
Notes
Index
