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Enterprise and Society 2005 6(3):504-506; doi:10.1093/es/khi064
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Business History Conference. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oupjournals.org.

Erik Gilbert. Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860–1970. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press, 2004. xiii + 176 pp. ISBN 0-8214-1557-3, $49.95 (cloth); 0-8214-1558-1, $26.95 (paper).

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It took a tsunami at the end of 2004 to alert the world to what Erik Gilbert could have told us well in advance—that the Indian Ocean’s edge and the people on it are intimately intertwined. Building from a rich grounding in one particular place, Gilbert tells the story of the intersections between the world of dhows and British colonial economic policies in the Zanzibar islands. Zanzibar today is a semi-autonomous if cantankerous partner with the former Tanganyika . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Garth A. Myers

University of Kansas


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