Il Sultanato di Zanzibar nel XIX secolo: traffici commerciale, relazioni internationali.

What is it about?

This book was the result of lifetime research studies both on the field and through archival and literature sources, conducted in Europe, Pakistan, Sultanate of Oman, and Zanzibar-Tanzania. In this study, I tried to focus on more than one littoral and on more than one region inside the Indian Ocean, with the object of analysing different perspectives both methodological and chronological.

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Why is it important?

Land and maritime realities before and after the Arab and the European Empires did constitute crucial issues throughout the history of the Indian Ocean. I am aware of the role of the Empires in these seas and on these lands, as well as of the ethnocentric views that did accompany numerous studies – Indian Ocean studies included - for a long time, and sometimes still do. The present volume, as explained above, it’s a long, challenging voyage inside a vast area, with many protagonists but also with many actors with no voice. The voyage could have started from Makran, than to Oman, and to Zanzibar that was part of a global unity that long preceded the economic unification of the Indian Ocean world from the sixteenth century, and the more recent processes of globalisation.

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