Building Colonialism: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Tanzania and its Urban Representation
Author(s): Daniel Rhodes
Year: 2013
Summary
Tanzania’s coastal harbour towns underwent phenomenally rapid transformation from the mid 1800s to the early 1900s. This was the result of British and German colonialism and the development of a new capitalist system of economic and social control. This new western design served to re-define the earlier systems of capitalist exchange within the formally Omani dominated Swahili Coast. The various systems of appropriation and reorganisation are represented in the urban landscape and resulted in the development of distinct building and town designs. These physical representations of division and control will be discussed along with the legacy of these groupings and their contribution to continuing ethnic divisions and social conflict.
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Building Colonialism: Nineteenth-Century Colonial Tanzania and its Urban Representation. Daniel Rhodes. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Leicester, England, U.K. 2013 ( tDAR id: 428460)
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Keywords
General
Africa
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Colonialism
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Urban
Geographic Keywords
United Kingdom
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Western Europe
Temporal Keywords
Nineteenth Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -8.158; min lat: 49.955 ; max long: 1.749; max lat: 60.722 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 130