Pastimes and Politics: Culture, Community, and Identity in Post-Abolition Urban Zanzibar, 1890-1945

by Laura Fair

Book Overview

The first decades of the twentieth century were years of dramatic change in Zanzibar, a time when the social, economic, and political lives of island residents were in incredible flux, framed by the abolition of slavery, the introduction of colonialism, and a tide of urban migration. Pastimes and Politics explores the era from the perspective of the urban poor, highlighting the numerous and varied ways that recently freed slaves and other...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821413848
• ISBN13: 9780821413845
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.3"