Feasts and riot : revelry, rebellion, and popular consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888

Feasts and riot : revelry, rebellion, and popular consciousness on the Swahili Coast, 1856-1888 / Jonathon Glassman.

In 1888 a handful of German adventurers bungled an attempt to conquer the Muslim towns of the East African coast. They were expelled almost immediately, but their intrusion sparked a political crisis that led to the collapse of all civil authority in the Swahili towns. Feasts and Riot traces the bac...

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Main Author: Glassman, Jonathon (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Portsmouth, N.H. : London : Nairobi : Dar es Salaam : Heinemann ; James Currey ; E.A.E.P. ; Mkuki Na Nyota, [1995]
Series:Social history of Africa.
Subjects:
To 1886
1856-1888.
Küste
Swahili (volk)
Oproeren.
Geschichte.
Geschichte 1856-1888.
Swahili-speaking peoples > Social life and customs.
Africa, East > History > To 1886.
Indian Coast (Africa) > History.
Africa, East
Africa > Indian Coast
Ostafrika
Swahili (Volk)
Afrique orientale anglophone > Histoire > jusquà > 1886.
Afrique orientale > Jusqu'à 1886.
Indien, Côte de lʹOcéan (Afrique) > Histoire.
Africa, East > History.
History
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