Edward A Alpers

Datos Biográficos

ID101742
NOMBREEdward A Alpers
NOMBRESEdward A
APELLIDOAlpers
FIRMAALPERS E A
AFILIACIONESUniversity of California, Los Angeles
VERIFICADONo
TOTAL DE OBRAS58
TOTAL DE CITAS424
TOTAL COMO AUTOR55
TOTAL COMO EDITOR5
PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN1969
AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN2024
ÍNDICE H10

  • Frembgen, Jürgen Wasim

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersARTICLEAnthropos2024

  • Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa

    Edward A AlpersBOOKIvory and Slaves in East Central…2023

  • On the Frontiers of the Indian Ocean World

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersARTICLEThe Journal of Interdisciplinary…2023

    Since the publication of Kirti N. Chaudhuri’s Trade and Civilisation in the Indian Ocean (New York, 1985), historical studies of the Indian Ocean World (iow) have grown exponentially. Coming to grips with this vast oceanic space has challenged subsequent generations of historians to think creatively about how best to address its great diversity in both time and space. An important feature of this recent scholarship is its interdisciplinarity. In …

  • The impact of the slave trade on East Central Africa in the nineteenth century

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersCHAPTERForced Migration2022

    For several centuries slaves were exported from East Africa to the Muslim world through the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean. Exports to the Indian Ocean islands held by the Europeans were later added to the Muslim trade. The first half of the nineteenth century in East Africa was marked by the continued rapid growth of the slave trade. Until the nineteenth century, no direct trade had been allowed between the subordinate ports of Portuguese East Afr…

  • Defining Regions of Pre-Colonial Africa

    Open AccessHenry B Lovejoy, P E Lovejoy et al.ARTICLEHistory in Africa2021Citada por: 1Referencias: 42

    Regionalizing pre-colonial Africa aids in the collection and interpretation of primary sources as data for further analysis. This article includes a map with six broad regions and 34 sub-regions, which form a controlled vocabulary within which researchers may geographically organize and classify disparate pieces of information related to Africa’s past. In computational terms, the proposed African regions serve as data containers in order to conso…

  • Abolition and the Registration of Slaves and Libertos in Portuguese Mozambique, 1856–76

    Open AccessDaniel B Domingues Da Silva, Edward A Alpers et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of African History2021Referencias: 6

    Beginning in 1856 and ending in 1876, Portuguese colonial authorities in Mozambique registered almost 55,000 enslaved and freed Africans ( libertos ). The sources for these twinned registration processes are located in the national archives of Portugal and Mozambique. Fragments of the originals survive for only six of the ten districts of the colony, but contemporary copies exist for nearly all districts. Combined, they provide a unique opportuni…

  • African Islands

    Toyin Falola, R Joseph Parrott et al.BOOKAfrican Islands2019

  • Forty Years On

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersCHAPTERTransregional Trade and Traders2019

    Almost forty years ago, the author published an article on Gujarat and East Africa from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Although several other scholars had written serious historical works either about or including Indian traders in eastern Africa in the modern period, at the time it was a pioneering piece for historians of East Africa. While the author has written and continues to write about the African diaspora in the Indian Ocean w…

  • One. The Other Middle Passage

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersCHAPTERMany middle passages2019

  • Redefining African Regions for Linking Open-Source Data

    Open AccessHenry B Lovejoy, P E Lovejoy et al.ARTICLEHistory in Africa2019Citada por: 2Referencias: 71

    In recent years, an increasing number of online archival databases of primary sources related to the history of the African diaspora and slavery have become freely and readily accessible for scholarly and public consumption. This proliferation of digital projects and databases presents a number of challenges related to aggregating data geographically according to the movement of people in and out of Africa across time and space. As a requirement …

  • Transregional Trade and Traders

    Edward A Alpers, Chhaya GoswamiBOOKTransregional Trade and Traders2019Citada por: 2

    Blessed with numerous safe harbours, accessible ports, and a rich hinterland, Gujarat has been central to the history of Indian Ocean maritime exchange that involved not only goods, but also people and ideas. This volume maps the trajectory of the extra-continental interactions of Gujarat and how it shaped the history of Indian Ocean. Chronologically, the volume spans two millennia, and geographically, it ranges from the Red Sea to Southeast Asia…

  • African Islands

    Toyin Falola, R Joseph Parrott et al.BOOKAfrican Islands2019

  • Connectivity in Motion

    Open AccessBurkhard Schnepel, Edward A AlpersBOOKConnectivity in Motion2018

  • Le caractere d’une traite d’esclaves deguisee (the nature of a disguised slave trade)”? Labor recruitment for La Reunion at Portuguese Mozambique, 1887-1889

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersARTICLEUfahamu A Journal of African…2018Citada por: 2Referencias: 8

    This paper examines the final moments of the French libres engagés system of labor recruitment from Mozambique to La Réunion in the late 1880s. Rather than simply regarding this system as a form of disguised slave trade, it seeks to understand how these workers were actually recruited and the conditions of their employment on the French colonial island. It draws upon both French and Portuguese archival sources to place this brief chapter in the l…

  • On Becoming A British Lake

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersCHAPTERIndian Ocean Slavery in the Age…2017

    3. On Becoming A British Lake: Piracy, Slaving, and British Imperialism in the Indian Ocean During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century was published in Indian Ocean Slavery in the Age of Abolition on page 45.

  • Connectivity in Motion

    Burkhard Schnepel, Edward A AlpersBOOKConnectivity in Motion2017

  • Indian Textiles at Mozambique Island in the Mid-Eighteenth Century

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersARTICLETextile History2017

    Building upon the work of scholars writing about Indian textiles and the textile trade of the western Indian Ocean, I examine a combined list of nearly eighty different specific types of Indian cotton cloths that were imported at Mozambique Island in the 1750s. In the absence of physical evidence, I seek first to identify each specific textile using archival and literary sources and then to categorise them according to provenance, design and pric…

  • Food Traditions and Landscape Histories of the Indian Ocean World

    Haripriya Rangan, Edward A Alpers et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and History2015Citada por: 5Referencias: 14

    Environmental histories of plant exchanges have largely centred on their economic importance in international trade and on their ecological and social impacts in the places where they were introduced. Yet few studies have attempted to examine how plants brought from elsewhere become incorporated over time into the regional cultures of material life and agricultural landscapes. This essay considers the theoretical and methodological problems in in…

  • Marooned Plants

    Christian A Kull, Christian Kull et al.ARTICLEEnvironment and History2015Citada por: 1Referencias: 2

    This article explores possible histories of plant exchanges and plant naming tied to the slave trade between East Africa, Madagascar and the Mascarene Islands. The subsequent ' marronnage ' of slaves on these islands – their escape from captivity, sometimes to live in mountain hideouts – continues to inspire cultural references. Inspired by the use of the adjective ' marron/marronne ' for a number of plants on Reunion Island, we compile evidence …

  • On Becoming a British Lake

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersCHAPTERIndian Ocean Slavery In The Age…2013

    Chapter 3 shows how the Indian Ocean became a “British Lake” and how that imperial transformation affected trade and geo-politics, particularly piracy and slave trading. It describes competing imperial entities in the region, making it a contested maritime space and involving Europeans as well as indigenous actors. The British initially showed no interest in the East African coast and the Persian Gulf. Two factors changed this: (1) development of…

  • Slavery in the Great Lakes Region of East Africa

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersARTICLESlavery and Abolition2009

    edited by Henri Medard & Shane Doyle, Oxford, James Currey, 2007, xiv, 273 pp., £55.00 and £17.95. ISBN 978-1-84701-602-7 (cloth); 978-1-84701-603-4 (paper). The Great Lakes region of East Africa i

  • Representations of Children in the East African Slave Trade

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersARTICLESlavery and Abolition2009Citada por: 1Referencias: 1

    This article argues that children were prominently featured in the abolitionist literature for East Africa primarily to appeal to the sentimental instincts of European readers. It examines a number of different sources dating from the later nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by both Europeans and Africans. While not all sources from this period on children and slavery were overtly sentimentalized, in the context of the abolition movement it…

  • Parler en son nom ? Comprendre les témoignages d'esclaves africains originaires de l'océan Indien (1850-1930)

    Open AccessEdward A Alpers, Edward Alpers et al.ARTICLEAnnales Histoire Sciences Sociales2008Citada por: 5Referencias: 29

    Cet article examine des témoignages d'esclaves affranchis retrouvés dans les archives de l'amirauté britannique, dans celles des consulats ou des cours de justice de l'océan Indien occidental. À la différence des récits mieux connus concernant la traite atlantique, ces documents sont généralement brefs et ne sont pas directement produits par les esclaves africains eux-mêmes. Bien que difficiles à analyser, en raison de multiples strates de transc…

  • Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia

    Edward Alpers, Alpers/Campbell Alpers/Campbell et al.BOOKResisting Bondage in Indian Ocean…2007Citada por: 8

    Resisting Bondage in Indian Ocean Africa and Asia is the companion volume to Slavery and Resistance in Africa and Asia which was published by Routledge in 2005. This second volume, as implied by the title, recognizes the complexity of forms of bondage in the Indian Ocean world - incorporating regions running from East Africa to the Middle East, to South and Southeast Asia to the Far East - and of resistance to them. Slavery, in the conventional s…

  • The idea of marronage

    Edward A Alpers, Edward AlpersARTICLESlavery and Abolition2004