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10 - Indigenous Modernisation in Indian Ocean Africa: Egypt, Imerina, and Ethiopia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2019

Gwyn Campbell
Gwyn Campbell
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McGill University, Montréal
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The nineteenth century witnessed the emergence of a truly international economy and a new European imperialism. The conventional view is that by 1914, the forces of modern capitalism had drawn all but the most remote communities into its orbit while, with few exceptions, IOW societies crumbled under the economic and political domination of the West.

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Africa and the Indian Ocean World from Early Times to Circa 1900 , pp. 199 - 230
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2019

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