Stephen J Rockel
Biographic Data
| ID | 119495 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen J Rockel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen J |
| FAMILY NAME | Rockel |
| SIGNATURE | ROCKEL S J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-6412-4162 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Forgotten Drought and Famine in East Africa, 1883–1885
The Tutsi and the Nyamwezi
The key role of the Nyamwezi in the nineteenth-century caravan trade of East and Central Africa is well known. The convergence of rapid change in Unyamwezi, a region connecting areas of economic specialization, is more obscure. The development of agro-pastoralism in Unyamwezi was an adaptation and an opportunity forged by (unequal) partnerships between the Nyamwezi commercial elite and Tutsi immigrants. Patron-client relationships reflected preva…
The Home and the World
New Labor History in Sub-Saharan Africa
African labor history is undergoing a resurgence judging by the appearance of these three important books. During the 1990s and into the early twenty-first century, historians working in East, West, and southern Africa published a remarkable number of first-rate histories of migrant laborers, rural workers, and the emerging urban working class, notably in the innovative Heinemann Social History of Africa series founded by Allen Isaacman and Jean …
Domesticating the World
Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa c.1884–1914 (review)
Reviewed by: Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa c.1884–1914 Stephen Rockel Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa c.1884–1914. By Jan-Georg Deutsch. (Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2006). When the Germans occupied their largest African colony they found that a significant proportion of the population were slaves. In some regions, particularly along the Indian Oce…
Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth Century East Africa
The nineteenth century East African caravan system was organised around the labour of itinerant caravan porters, most of whom were free wage labourers. However, a minority of the caravan labour force and a section of the populations of new market and caravan towns on the coast and in the interior were slaves or freed slaves known as Waungwana, or ‘gentlemen’. Waungwana caravan porters and retainers of Muslim traders were mostly coast-based, altho…
Forgotten Caravan Towns in 19th Century Tanzania
(2006). Forgotten Caravan Towns in 19th Century Tanzania: Mbwamaji and Mpwapwa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 1-25
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
A Nation of Porters’
From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Nyamwezi long-distance trading caravans dominated the central routes through Tanzania, stretching from Mrima coast ports such as Bagamoyo and Saadani to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika. Despite the inroads of Omani Arab and Swahili trading enterprises from the middle of the century, the Nyamwezi maintained a position of strength. In the second half of the nineteenth century, market relations emerged as the d…
Enterprising Partners
(2000). Enterprising Partners: Caravan Women in Nineteenth Century Tanzania. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 34, On Slavery and Islam in African History: A Tribute to Martin Klein / De l’esclavage et de l’Islam dans l’histoire africaine : un tribut à Martin Klein, pp. 748-778
Cotton is the Mother of Poverty
Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa
Wage Labor and the Culture of Porterage in Nineteenth Century Tanzania
Research Article| August 01 1995 Wage Labor and the Culture of Porterage in Nineteenth Century Tanzania: The Central Caravan Routes Stephen Rockel Stephen Rockel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 14–24. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-2-14 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Rockel; Wage Labor and …
Relocating Labor
It is generally recognized that during the period from ca . 1450 to 1900, when commercial relations between sub-Saharan Africa and the outside world were extended and strengthened, a wide range of systems and institutions for mobilizing labor were in use in different regions. I speak here of those operating beyond the primary locus of household and lineage. Such means of labor production and control ranged from chattel slavery to pawnship, corvée…
A Nation of Porters’
From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Nyamwezi long-distance trading caravans dominated the central routes through Tanzania, stretching from Mrima coast ports such as Bagamoyo and Saadani to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika. Despite the inroads of Omani Arab and Swahili trading enterprises from the middle of the century, the Nyamwezi maintained a position of strength. In the second half of the nineteenth century, market relations emerged as the d…
Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth Century East Africa
The nineteenth century East African caravan system was organised around the labour of itinerant caravan porters, most of whom were free wage labourers. However, a minority of the caravan labour force and a section of the populations of new market and caravan towns on the coast and in the interior were slaves or freed slaves known as Waungwana, or ‘gentlemen’. Waungwana caravan porters and retainers of Muslim traders were mostly coast-based, altho…
Forgotten Caravan Towns in 19th Century Tanzania
(2006). Forgotten Caravan Towns in 19th Century Tanzania: Mbwamaji and Mpwapwa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 1-25
Enterprising Partners
(2000). Enterprising Partners: Caravan Women in Nineteenth Century Tanzania. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 34, On Slavery and Islam in African History: A Tribute to Martin Klein / De l’esclavage et de l’Islam dans l’histoire africaine : un tribut à Martin Klein, pp. 748-778
The Tutsi and the Nyamwezi
The key role of the Nyamwezi in the nineteenth-century caravan trade of East and Central Africa is well known. The convergence of rapid change in Unyamwezi, a region connecting areas of economic specialization, is more obscure. The development of agro-pastoralism in Unyamwezi was an adaptation and an opportunity forged by (unequal) partnerships between the Nyamwezi commercial elite and Tutsi immigrants. Patron-client relationships reflected preva…
Relocating Labor
It is generally recognized that during the period from ca . 1450 to 1900, when commercial relations between sub-Saharan Africa and the outside world were extended and strengthened, a wide range of systems and institutions for mobilizing labor were in use in different regions. I speak here of those operating beyond the primary locus of household and lineage. Such means of labor production and control ranged from chattel slavery to pawnship, corvée…
Domesticating the World
Wage Labor and the Culture of Porterage in Nineteenth Century Tanzania
Research Article| August 01 1995 Wage Labor and the Culture of Porterage in Nineteenth Century Tanzania: The Central Caravan Routes Stephen Rockel Stephen Rockel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 14–24. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-2-14 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Rockel; Wage Labor and …
Wage Labor and the Culture of Porterage in Nineteenth Century Tanzania
Research Article| August 01 1995 Wage Labor and the Culture of Porterage in Nineteenth Century Tanzania: The Central Caravan Routes Stephen Rockel Stephen Rockel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (1995) 15 (2): 14–24. https://doi.org/10.1215/07323867-15-2-14 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Stephen Rockel; Wage Labor and …
Relocating Labor
It is generally recognized that during the period from ca . 1450 to 1900, when commercial relations between sub-Saharan Africa and the outside world were extended and strengthened, a wide range of systems and institutions for mobilizing labor were in use in different regions. I speak here of those operating beyond the primary locus of household and lineage. Such means of labor production and control ranged from chattel slavery to pawnship, corvée…
Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa
Cotton is the Mother of Poverty
A Nation of Porters’
From the beginning of the nineteenth century, Nyamwezi long-distance trading caravans dominated the central routes through Tanzania, stretching from Mrima coast ports such as Bagamoyo and Saadani to Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika. Despite the inroads of Omani Arab and Swahili trading enterprises from the middle of the century, the Nyamwezi maintained a position of strength. In the second half of the nineteenth century, market relations emerged as the d…
Enterprising Partners
(2000). Enterprising Partners: Caravan Women in Nineteenth Century Tanzania. Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines: Vol. 34, On Slavery and Islam in African History: A Tribute to Martin Klein / De l’esclavage et de l’Islam dans l’histoire africaine : un tribut à Martin Klein, pp. 748-778
Travels in the Interior Districts of Africa
Forgotten Caravan Towns in 19th Century Tanzania
(2006). Forgotten Caravan Towns in 19th Century Tanzania: Mbwamaji and Mpwapwa. Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa: Vol. 41, No. 1, pp. 1-25
Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa c.1884–1914 (review)
Reviewed by: Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa c.1884–1914 Stephen Rockel Emancipation Without Abolition in German East Africa c.1884–1914. By Jan-Georg Deutsch. (Oxford: James Currey; Athens: Ohio University Press; Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2006). When the Germans occupied their largest African colony they found that a significant proportion of the population were slaves. In some regions, particularly along the Indian Oce…
Slavery and Freedom in Nineteenth Century East Africa
The nineteenth century East African caravan system was organised around the labour of itinerant caravan porters, most of whom were free wage labourers. However, a minority of the caravan labour force and a section of the populations of new market and caravan towns on the coast and in the interior were slaves or freed slaves known as Waungwana, or ‘gentlemen’. Waungwana caravan porters and retainers of Muslim traders were mostly coast-based, altho…
Domesticating the World
New Labor History in Sub-Saharan Africa
African labor history is undergoing a resurgence judging by the appearance of these three important books. During the 1990s and into the early twenty-first century, historians working in East, West, and southern Africa published a remarkable number of first-rate histories of migrant laborers, rural workers, and the emerging urban working class, notably in the innovative Heinemann Social History of Africa series founded by Allen Isaacman and Jean …
The Home and the World
The Tutsi and the Nyamwezi
The key role of the Nyamwezi in the nineteenth-century caravan trade of East and Central Africa is well known. The convergence of rapid change in Unyamwezi, a region connecting areas of economic specialization, is more obscure. The development of agro-pastoralism in Unyamwezi was an adaptation and an opportunity forged by (unequal) partnerships between the Nyamwezi commercial elite and Tutsi immigrants. Patron-client relationships reflected preva…
A Forgotten Drought and Famine in East Africa, 1883–1885
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