Capitalism and Cloves An Archaeology of Plantation Life on Nineteenth-Century Zanzibar /

• Main Author: Croucher, Sarah K. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Subjects: Social sciences.; History.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; History, general.

This study of nineteenth-century clove plantations on Zanzibar provides an important contribution to debates in global historical archaeology. Broadening plantation archaeology beyond the Atlantic World, this work addresses plantations run by Omani Arab colonial rulers of Zanzibar. Drawing on archae...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Introduction
• Chapter 2: Why Clove Plantations? East African Archaeology, History and Anthropology
• Chapter 3: Plantation Landscapes
• Chapter 4: The Archaeology of Slavery
• Chapter 5: Plantation Households
• Chapter 6: Global Goods
• Chapter 7: Pemban People: Local Ceramics and Changing Identities
• Chapter 8: Capitalism and Cloves: East African Historical Archaeology.  .