{"product_id":"inland-from-mombasa-east-africa-and-the-making-of-the-indian-ocean-world-paperback","title":"Inland from Mombasa: East Africa and the Making of the Indian Ocean World - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid P. Bresnahan\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ewww.luminosoa.org\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e to learn more.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInland from Mombasa\u003c\/i\u003e, 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. \u003ci\u003eInland from Mombasa \u003c\/i\u003emakes 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInland from Mombasa\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003ePoverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"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\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid P. Bresnahan\u003c\/b\u003e is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Utah.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 244\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.55 x 8.82 x 5.98 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e December 10, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755232395552,"sku":"9780520400481","price":62.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/648d080fc2534b0ee4acf026e1caa51b.webp?v=1780053701","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/inland-from-mombasa-east-africa-and-the-making-of-the-indian-ocean-world-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}