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Introduction: The Commercial Empire
One: The Rise of a Compradorial State
The mercantile civilisation of the Swahili coast
The subjugation of the Swahili coast
Two: The Transformation of the Slave Sector
The French slave trade and the re-subjugation of Kilwa, 1770-1822
The genesis of the slave system of production in Zanzibar, 1810-1840s
The development of the slave system on the northern coast
Three: Commercial Expansion and the Rise of the Merchant Class
The ivory trade to the end of the eighteenth century
The genesis of the Indian mercantile class
The expansion of foreign trade
The dynamo of merchant accumulation
Conclusion
Four: The Structure of the Commercial Empire
The entrepôt
Economic dependence
The capital: planter town or commercial centre?
Five: The Hinterland of Zanzibar
The southern hinterland
The northern hinterland
The core of the commercial empire
The moving frontier
Where the flag did not follow trade
The subordination of the Indian merchant class
The dismemberment of the Omani kingdom
The nationalist reaction: accession of Barghash
The slave trade under attack
‘I have come to dictate’
A: Bombay trade with East Africa, 1801/2–1869/70
B: Prices of ivory and merekani sheeting, 1802/3–1873/4
C: Ivory imports into the United Kingdom, 1792–1875
