Zanzibar: Background to Revolution

✍ Scribed by Michael F. Lofchie

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 328
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 2417
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book gives a detailed analysis of the causes of the revolution of January 1964 in Zanzibar, and provides a study of the process of modernization in a plural society.

Originally published in 1965.

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✦ Table of Contents

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
List of Tables and Maps
Introduction
PART I. HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL BACKGROUND
I. The Establishment of the Arab State
II. British Colonial Policy in Zanzibar
III. Social Structure of Zanzibar
PART II. THE ORIGINS OF POLITICAL CONFLICT
IV. Pre-War Politics in Zanzibar
V. The Emergence of Arab Nationalism
VI. The African Response
PART III. COMPETITIVE PARTY POLITICS IN ZANZIBAR
VII. Party Conflict in the Electoral System
VIII. Voting Behavior and Party Organization
Conclusion: The African Revolution
Appendix
Bibliography
Index