From Slaves to Squatters: Plantation Labor and Agriculture in Zanzibar and Coastal Kenya, 1890-1925
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (582 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0300024541 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is widely acknowledged as one of the most distinguished scholars in African history. Frederick Cooper is professor of history at the University of Michigan.
"Cooper's first book was noteworthy for its combination of meticulous scholarship and insightful analysis. This one is even better, the analysis deeper and more mature.?-American Historical Review-Cooper's first book was noteworthy for its combination of meticulous scholarship and insightful analysis. This one is even better, the analysis deeper and more mature.--American Historical Review . This one is even better, the analysis deeper and more mature."-American Historical Review?Cooper's first book was noteworthy for its combination of meticulous scholarship and insightful analysis
Cooper's subtle and seminal work examines the critical decades of transition from a slave-based plantation system in East Africa to a colonial economy based on wage labor. Yet the ex-slaves themselves had a quite different agenda: to acquire access to land on their own terms, and to shape their own working conditions. Cooper's comparative analysis is penetrating, and his book retains a central position in historical scholarship.. While British officials hoped to create an efficient and productive class of agrarian workers, the original Arab and Swahili landlords and slaveowners