In 1888, a handful of German adventurers bungled and attempt to conquer the Muslim towns of the East African coast. Their intrusion sparked a political crisis t

This work, which draws on substantial interviews, is a study of economic history from below. It focuses on the cultural and social history of Indians in Durban,

This is the first interdisciplinary history of Lake Tanganyika and of eastern Africa's relationship with the wider Indian Ocean World during the nineteenth cent

“ Ingeniously stands the study of globalization and trade on its head.”—Edward Alpers, Chair of Department of History, UCLA

"The first history of photography from Africa's Swahili coast, revealing the images' complicated relationships to colonialism and global influence"--