Trade and Empire in Muscat and Zanzibar Book

	List of Figures, Maps and Tables
	Preface
	Acknowledgements
	Conventions and Abbreviations
	Introduction
Pt. I	Prelude to the rise of the Albusaidi Dynasty in East Africa	1
1	Oman's links with India and East Africa: historical problems and perspectives	3
2	The importance of commerce to the early Albusaidi rulers	15
3	The emergence of British policy towards Oman: 1798-1804	31
4	British policy towards Oman under the first Wahhabi threat: 1804-14	45
Pt. II	The Albusaidi move to Zanzibar: exercise in empire building or survival?	65
5	Commercial, political and strategic attractions of East Africa	67
6	The suppression of Omani interests in the Gulf and the Albusaidi move to Zanzibar	88
Pt. III	The development of Omani commerce and British reaction	101
7	The re-emergence of British policy towards Oman: post-1833	103
8	The 'Omani' and the 'Indian' roles in the nineteenth-century commercial expansion	116
9	Beginnings of the integration of Muscat and Zanzibar into the world economy	138
Pt. IV	Internal and external factors in the subjugation of Oman	149
10	Commercial and political rivalry and British encroachments in East Africa	151
11	The subordination of Muscat's rulers and their associates from India	164
12	Post-1856 succession dispute and British intervention	179
	Conclusion	194
	App. 1 1750 Letter from the Ruler of Anjouan to Ahmad b Said Albusaidi	199
	App. 2 Said b Sultan's 1844 letter to Aberdeen	200
	App. 3 Said b Sultan's will, 1850	201
	Glossary	203
	Notes	205
	Bibliography	247
	Index	270