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Article: Erik Gilbert, Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar 1860-1970.(Book Review)
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- March 22, 2005
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ERIK GILBERT, Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar 1860-1970. Oxford: James Currey (pb 15.85 [pounds sterling]-0 85255 485 0; hb 45.00 [pounds sterling] -0 85255 486 9); Athens: Ohio University Press (pb US$26.95-0 8214 1558 1; hb US$49.95-0 8214 1557 3); Dares Salaam: Zanzibar Gallery. 2004, 176 pp.
As Erik Gilbert points out in this carefully focused book, the variety of indigenous Western Indian Ocean vessels known popularly as dhows and universally recognized by both scholars and casual observers as a characteristic feature of historical trade within the region has been unjustly neglected by historians. Gilbert sets out, in this revised version of his ...