LEADER 03250nam 22005293 450 001 9910897701103321 005 20241018084505.0 010 $a9780520400498 010 $a0520400496 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520400498 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC31594326 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL31594326 035 $a(CKB)36360201200041 035 $a(DE-B1597)690532 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520400498 035 $a(Perlego)4387924 035 $a(EXLCZ)9936360201200041 100 $a20241018d2024 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aInland from Mombasa $eEast Africa and the Making of the Indian Ocean World 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aBerkeley :$cUniversity of California Press,$d2024. 210 4$dİ2025. 215 $a1 online resource (246 pages) 311 08$a9780520400481 311 08$a0520400488 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tNote on Language -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Unmoored from the Ocean -- $t2 Looking Inland, to the World -- $t3 The Inland Underpinnings of Indian Ocean Commerce -- $t4 Inland Villages and Oceanic Empires -- $t5 From Mijikenda City to Busaidi Backwater -- $tConclusion -- $tAppendix 1 Placing East African Languages in Time and Space -- $tAppendix 2 Mijikenda Dialects -- $tAppendix 3 Lexical Reconstructions and Distributions -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged transregional networks into a world of global connections. East Africa's crucial role in this Indian Ocean world has primarily been understood through the influence of coastal trading centers like Mombasa. In Inland from Mombasa, David P. Bresnahan looks anew at this Swahili port city from the vantage point of the communities that lived on its rural edges. By reconstructing the deep history of these Mijikenda-speaking societies over the past two millennia, he shows how profoundly they influenced global trade even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices that historians have claimed are critical to creating global connections, choosing smaller communities over urbanism, local ritual practices over Islam, and inland trade over maritime commerce. Inland from Mombasa makes the compelling case that the seemingly isolating alternative social pursuits engaged in by Mijikenda speakers were in fact key to their active role in global commerce and politics. 606 $aMijikenda (African people)$xHistory 606 $aHISTORY / World$2bisacsh 607 $aIndian Ocean Region$xEconomic aspects 607 $aMombasa (Kenya)$xHistory 615 0$aMijikenda (African people)$xHistory. 615 7$aHISTORY / World. 676 $a967.62/360049639 700 $aBresnahan$b David P$01766927 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910897701103321 996 $aInland from Mombasa$94211691 997 $aUNINA