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Article: Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2005
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Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970. By Erik Gilbert. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2004. Pp. xiii, 176. $26.95.)
Dhows are a name given to a variety of sailing vessels of the western Indian Ocean whose significance is well-known to historians of East Africa. Exploiting the regular seasonal monsoon trade winds, dhows have been the foundation of cultural and economic contact between eastern Africa, the Arabian peninsula, and India for at least two millennia. This book examines the persistence of the dhow trade, centered on the East African island of Zanzibar, in light of a variety of assaults on the vessel from the mid-nineteenth century to the ...