Erik Gilbert


Erik Gilbert is an assistant professor of history at Arkansas State University.


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Cover of Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970

Dhows and the Colonial Economy of Zanzibar, 1860-1970

Conventional history assumes that the rise of the steamship trade killed off the Indian Ocean dhow trade in the twentieth century. Erik Gilbert argues that the dhow economy played a major role in shaping the economic and social life of colonial Zanzibar.…

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