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Inland from Mombasa - by David P Bresnahan (Paperback)

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  • A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program.
  • About the Author: David P. Bresnahan is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah.
  • 244 Pages
  • History, World

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"Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged transregional networks into a world of global connections. East Africa's crucial role in this Indian Ocean world has primarily been understood through the influence of coastal trading centers like Mombasa. In Inland from Mombasa, David P. Bresnahan looks anew at this Swahili port city from the vantage point of the communities that lived on its rural edges. By reconstructing the deep history of these Mijikenda-speaking societies over the past two millennia, he shows how profoundly they influenced global trade even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices that historians have claimed are critical to creating global connections, choosing smaller communities over urbanism, local ritual practices over Islam, and inland trade over maritime commerce. Inland from Mombasa makes the compelling case that the seemingly isolating alternative social pursuits selected by Mijikenda speakers were in fact key to their active role in global commerce and politics"--



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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.

Over the past few decades, scholars have traced how Indian Ocean merchants forged transregional networks into a world of global connections. East Africa's crucial role in this Indian Ocean world has primarily been understood through the influence of coastal trading centers like Mombasa. In Inland from Mombasa, David P. Bresnahan looks anew at this Swahili port city from the vantage point of the communities that lived on its rural edges. By reconstructing the deep history of these Mijikenda-speaking societies over the past two millennia, he shows how profoundly they influenced global trade even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices that historians have claimed are critical to creating global connections, choosing smaller communities over urbanism, local ritual practices over Islam, and inland trade over maritime commerce. Inland from Mombasa makes the compelling case that the seemingly isolating alternative social pursuits engaged in by Mijikenda speakers were in fact key to their active role in global commerce and politics.



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"Inland from Mombasa is exemplary scholarship that reframes the Indian Ocean world by showing how African communities that were key providers of trade goods shaped it even as they rejected many of the cosmopolitan practices previously understood to bind it together. By reconstructing the deep history of Mijikenda societies, David Bresnahan demonstrates how the decisions they made about their own lives affected power relations across the Arabian Sea and beyond."--Rhiannon Stephens, author of Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History

"An enlightening, urgent, and refreshing intervention. This book provides a critically important perspective on Mombasa from its surrounding communities and, in the process, a genre-defining reconceptualization of the essential role of inland societies that chose not to be centralized in the process of globalization and trade across the Indian Ocean."--Bettina Ng'weno, Associate Professor of African American and African Studies, University of California, Davis



About the Author



David P. Bresnahan is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.82 Inches (H) x 5.98 Inches (W) x .55 Inches (D)
Weight: .75 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 244
Genre: History
Sub-Genre: World
Publisher: University of California Press
Format: Paperback
Author: David P Bresnahan
Language: English
Street Date: December 10, 2024
TCIN: 91830537
UPC: 9780520400481
Item Number (DPCI): 247-50-6586
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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