Settled strangers : Asian business elites in East Africa (1800-2000) /

Settled Strangers aims at understanding the social, economic and political evolution of the transnational migrant community of Gujarati traders and merchants in East Africa. The history of South Asians in East Africa is neither part of the mainstream national Indian history nor that of East African...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Oonk, Gijsbert, 1966-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Delhi : SAGE Publications, 2013.
Temas:
East Asians > Africa > History.
East Asians > Africa > Social conditions.
East Asians > Africa > Economic conditions.
Businesspeople > Africa > History.
Est-Asiatiques > Afrique > Histoire.
Est-Asiatiques > Afrique > Conditions sociales.
Est-Asiatiques > Afrique > Conditions économiques.
Gens d'affaires > Afrique > Histoire.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Ethnic Studies > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
Businesspeople
East Asians
Emigration and immigration
India > Emigration and immigration > History.
Africa > Emigration and immigration > History.
Afrique > Émigration et immigration > Histoire.
Africa
India
History
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Settled strangers: from middleman minorities to world citizens
  • Asians in Africa 1880/1920: settling as an economic process
  • Asians in Africa 1880/1960: settling as a cultural process
  • Asians in Africa 1880/2000: settling and unsettling as a political process
  • A quest for an interdisciplinary history from below in explaining social change.

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