ISBN:
0-300-02454-1
,
978-0-300-02454-8
Language:
English
Pages:
xvii, 328 Seiten
,
Graphen
DDC:
331.763096781
Keywords:
Tansania Sansibar
;
Kenia
;
Geschichte
;
Landwirtschaft
;
Grundeigentum
;
Alltag
;
Sozio-ökonomischer Aspekt
;
Sozialer Wandel
;
Sklaverei
;
Arbeitsverhältnis
;
Arbeiterklasse
;
Kolonie, britisch
;
Kultureinfluss
Abstract:
This book is an examination of the complex mechanism of control that the dichotomy of freedom and slavery has shrouded. It looks at British ideas about slavery and wage labor not as a set of abstract principles but as ways of articulating the social, economic and moral bases of a system of production, in opposition to other forms of labor organization and agriculture and in the context of the extension of colonial rule and a capitalist economy to Africa. It examines the means by which the colonial state buttressed, or failed to buttress, the domination of landowners, while using the mechanism of law and state power to redefine the basis of the planters' control of labor. It stresses the contrasting ways in which the plantation economy evolved in the two British colonies and the uneasy relationship of plantation labor to peasant production. (Umschlagtext)
Description / Table of Contents:
Tables and figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations used in the notes -- Swahili terms and money and weights -- Map 1: British East Africa -- Map 2. Zanzibar, Pemba, and the Coast of Kenya -- 1. Introduction -- 2. British ideology and African Slavery -- 3. Labor and the colonial state: Zanzibar, 1897-1925 -- 4. Planters, Squatters, and clove trees: agriculture in Zanzibar, 1897-1925 -- 5. Fraom planters to landlords: labor, land, and the plantation economy of the Coast of Kenya, 1907-1925 -- 6. The coast in the colonial economy of Kenya, 1907-1925 -- 7. Epiloge: cloves, sashews, and conflict -- Appendix: the Abolition Decree, Zanzibar, 1897 -- People interviewed -- Bibliography -- Index
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 303-317Published in Kenya by Kenya Literature Bureau 1981
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