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[null,null,"Autore",null,"Bhacker M. Reda (Mohamed Reda), <1955, >"]
[null,null,"Titolo",null,"Trade and empire in Muscat and Zanzibar : roots of British domination / / M. Reda Bhacker"]
[null,null,"Pubbl/distr/stampa",null,"London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 1992"]
[null,null,"ISBN",null,"1-134-89554-2"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-134-89555-0"]
[{"$nulls":4},"1-280-32243-8"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-203-41033-5"]
[{"$nulls":4},"0-203-32032-8"]
[null,null,"Descrizione fisica",null,"1 online resource (309 p.)"]
[null,null,"Collana",null,"Exeter Arabic and Islamic series"]
[null,null,"Disciplina",null,"337.4105353"]
[{"$nulls":4},"953.53"]
[null,null,"Soggetti",null,"Business enterprises - Oman"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Oman Commerce History"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Oman Foreign economic relations Great Britain"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Great Britain Foreign economic relations Oman"]
[null,null,"Lingua di pubblicazione",null,"Inglese"]
[null,null,"Formato",null,"Materiale a stampa"]
[null,null,null,"Livello bibliografico","Monografia"]
[null,null,null,"Note generali","Description based upon print version of record."]
[null,null,null,"Nota di bibliografia","Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-269) and index."]
[null,null,"Nota di contenuto",null,"Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of Figures, Maps and Tables; Preface; Acknowledgements; Conventions and Abbreviations; Introduction; Prelude to the rise of the Albusaidi Dynasty in East Africa; Oman's links with India and East Africa: historical problems and perspectives; Migrations and the interaction of commerce and religion in Omani and Swahili cultures; The prominence of the Banyans in Indian Ocean commerce; The importance of commerce to the early Albusaidi rulers; The emergence of Muscat as a political-commercial centre"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Developments in Omani and Indian Ocean commerce by the turn of the nineteenth centuryThe emergence of British policy towards Oman: 1798  1804; The 1798 Treaty between Oman and Britain: origins and consequences; The Wahhabis and the beginnings of Muscat's reliance on Britain; British policy towards Oman under the first Wahhabi threat: 1804  14; The rise and early struggles of Said b Sultan (r. 1806  56); The Albusaidi move to Zanzibar: exercise in empire building or survival?; Commercial, political and strategic attractions of East Africa; Said b Sultan's relationship with merchants from India"]
[{"$nulls":4},"The commercial potential and opposition to Said b SultanThe suppression of Omani interests in the Gulf and the Albusaidi move to Zanzibar; Said b Sultan's move to Zanzibar: a new interpretation; The development of Omani commerce and British reaction; The re-emergence of British policy towards Oman: post-1833; The 1833 Omani-American Treaty: catalyst for change of British policy; The British role in the resolution of the Albusaidi-Mazrui conflict; The 'Omani' and the 'Indian' roles in the nineteenth-century commercial expansion; Role of Muscat in the rise of Zanzibar"]
[{"$nulls":4},"Muscat and Zanzibar: the resurgence of the Omani economyBeginnings of the integration of Muscat and Zanzibar into the world economy; Expansion of the Omani entrept and agricultural economy; Internal and external factors in the subjugation of Oman; Commercial and political rivalry and British encroachments in East Africa; The consolidation of British authority in the Gulf; British encroachments in East Africa; The subordination of Muscat's rulers and their associates from India; British consul's exploitation of the nationality question and the antislavery crusade"]
[{"$nulls":4},"The subjugation of the 'Indians'Post-1856 succession dispute and British intervention; The British role in the dismemberment of Oman; Conclusion; Appendices; Said b Sultan's 1844 letter to Aberdeen; Said b Sultan's will, 1850; Glossary; Notes; Bibliography; Index"]
[null,null,null,"Sommario/riassunto","M. Reda Bhacker looks at the role of Oman in the Indian Ocean prior to British domination of the region. Omani merchant communities played a crucial part in the development of commercial activity throughout the territories they held in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially between Muscat and Zanzibar, using long established trade networks. They were also largely responsible for the integration of the commerce of the Indian Ocean into the nascent global capitalist system.The author, himself a member of an important Omani merchant family, looks in detail at the complex re"]