Africa and the Indian Ocean World From Early Times to Circa 1900

Through a new historical approach based on human-environment interaction, Campbell explores Africa's relations with the Indian Ocean world from the early times to 1900.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. Africa in the making of an IOW global economy; 3. Indian Ocean Africa in the first great upswing in the Indian Ocean world global economy, 300 BCE to 300 CE; 4. Economic instability, c.300 to 900 CE; 5. The second great boom in the IOW global economy c.850 to 1250 and its Impact in Northern IOA; 6. Southern IOA and the second upsurge in the IOW global economy; 7. Uncertainties and European intrusion: the IOW global economy, 1300 to 1830; 8. The European impact in Indian Ocean Africa, 1500 to 1830; 9. The international economy and Indian Ocean Africa; 10. Indigenous modernisation in Indian Ocean Africa: Egypt, Imerina, and Ethiopia; 11. The scramble for Indian Ocean Africa; 12. Africa and slavery in the Indian Ocean world.

About the author

Gwyn Campbell is a Canada Research Chair and founding Director of the Indian Ocean World Centre at McGill University, Montréal. He served as an academic consultant for the South African Government in the run-up to the formation of an Indian Ocean regional association in 1997 and has published widely on Africa and the wider Indian Ocean world, including David Griffiths and the Missionary 'History of Madagascar' (2012) and An Economic History of Imperial Madagascar, 1750–1895 (Cambridge, 2005).

Product details

• Authors: Gwyn Campbell, Campbell Gwyn
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2019
• EAN: 9780521810357
• ISBN: 978-0-521-81035-7
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: New Approaches to African Hist; New Approaches to African History; New Approaches to African Hist
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, African History