Port cities and intruders : the Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the early modern era / Michael N. Pearson.
Material type:
TextSeries: Johns Hopkins symposia in comparative history ; 23rd.Publication details: Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, ©1998.Description: x, 202 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0801856922 (alk. paper)
- 9780801856921 (alk. paper)
- 0801872421
- 9780801872426
- To 1886
- Port cities -- Africa, East -- History
- East Indians -- Africa, East -- History
- Portuguese -- Africa, East -- History
- Swahili-speaking peoples -- History
- Havensteden
- Kolonisten
- East Indians
- Port cities
- Portuguese
- International relations
- Swahili-speaking peoples
- Havensteden
- Kolonisten
- Geschichte
- Africa, East -- History -- To 1886
- Portugal -- Relations -- Africa, East
- Africa, East -- Relations -- Portugal
- Africa, East
- Portugal
- Ostafrika
- Portugiesen
- Portugal
- Inder
- Swahili (Volk)
- 967.6/01 21
- DT432 .P43 1998
- 15.50
- NQ 9440
Contents:
Summary: In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.--Publisher description.
Introduction: Locating coastal East Africa -- The Swahili coast in the Afrasian Sea -- The Swahili coast and the interior -- East Africa in the world-economy -- The Portuguese on the coast -- Conclusion.
| Current library | Call number | Vol info | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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| Sultan Qaboos Cultural Center Library STACKS | DT432 .P43 1998 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | V. | Copy 1 | Available | 197010606 |
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| DT365.65 .M33 2018 Buying time : debt and mobility in the western Indian Ocean / | DT365.65 .W55 1998 City states of the Swahili coast / | DT429.5.S94 M54 1992 The world of the Swahili : an African mercantile civilization / | DT432 .P43 1998 Port cities and intruders : the Swahili Coast, India, and Portugal in the early modern era / | DT433.O5 A43 2018 Sir Ali bin Salim And the Making of Mombasa/ | DT433.545.S93 M39 1994 The Swahili : idiom and identity of an African people / | DT434.M7 D4 1968 Mombasa; an African city |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-195) and index.
Introduction: Locating coastal East Africa -- The Swahili coast in the Afrasian Sea -- The Swahili coast and the interior -- East Africa in the world-economy -- The Portuguese on the coast -- Conclusion.
In Port Cities and Intruders, historian Michael Pearson explores the role of port cities and their orientation, relations between the coast and the interior, the place of the coast in the world economy, and the impact of the Portuguese in the early modern period.--Publisher description.