M Reda Bhacker

Trade and Empire in Muscat and Zanzibar

The Roots of British Domination

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Produktbeschreibung

"Trade and Empire in Muscat and Zanzibar" examines the role of Oman in the Indian Ocean prior to British domination of the region. Omani merchant communities played a crucial part in the development of commercial activity throughout the territories they held in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially between Muscat and Zanzibar, using long-established trade networks. They were also largely responsible for the integration of the commerce of the Indian Ocean into the emerging global capitalist system. M. Reda Bhacker himself a member of an important Omani merchant family provides a detailed examination of the complex relationship between the merchant community and Oman's rulers. He analyzes the tribal and religious dynamics of Omani politics both in Arabia, with special emphasis given to the Wahhabi/Saudi threat, and in Oman's sprawling territory, particularly in Zanzibar, where the Omani ruler Sa'id b Sultan had his court from 1840. The author finds that the merchant communities and the governments in the region were unable to respond to Britain's determined onslaught, despite their power and prestige. He traces the local and regional factors that allowed Britain to destroy Oman's largely commercial challenge, and to emerge by the end of the nineteenth century as the dominant commercial and political power in the region.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 555g
• ISBN-13: 9780415079976
• ISBN-10: 0415079977
• Artikelnr.: 21020049

Autorenporträt

Dr. M. Reda Bhacker (Author

Inhaltsangabe

Part I Prelude to the rise of the Albusaidi Dynasty in East Africa 1 Oman's
links with India and East Africa: historical problems and perspectives 2
The importance of commerce to the early Albusaidi rulers 3 The emergence of
British policy towards Oman: 1798-1804, 4 British policy towards Oman under
the first Wahhabi threat: 1804, 5 Commercial, political and strategic
attractions of East Africa 6 The suppression of Omani interests in the Gulf
and the Albusaidi move to Zanzibar Part III The development of Omani
commerce and British reaction 7 The re-emergence of British policy towards
Oman: post-1833, 8 The 'Omani' and the 'Indian' roles in the
nineteenth-century commercial expansion 9 Beginnings of the integration of
Muscat and Zanzibar into the world economy, Part IV Internal and external
factors in the subjugation of Oman 10 Commercial and political rivalry and
British encroachments in East Africa 11 The subordination of Muscat's
rulers and their associates from India 164 British consul's exploitation of
the nationality question and the antislavery crusade, The subjugation of
the 'Indians' 12 Post-1856 succession dispute and British intervention