William Gervase Clarence‐smith
Biographic Data
| ID | 3586106 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William Gervase Clarence‐smith |
| GIVEN NAMES | William Gervase |
| FAMILY NAME | Clarence‐smith |
| SIGNATURE | SMITH W G C |
| AFFILIATIONS | SOAS University of London |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 75 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 314 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 75 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia
Journal Article Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Get access Nurfadzilah Yahaya. Fluid Jurisdictions: Colonial Law and Arabs in Southeast Asia. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2020. Pp. xi, 251. Paper $29.95. William G. Clarence-Smith William G. Clarence-Smith SOAS University of London, England Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google…
The Donkey Trade of the Indian Ocean World in the Long Nineteenth Century
Equids across the Indian Ocean, c . 1800–1918
Equids were the main animals transported across the Indian Ocean in this period. Prior to the spread of the internal combustion engine, warfare, agricultural estates, and urban transport drove demand. British India, cut off from overland sources by the Afghans, was the main market, followed by islands with large plantation sectors, notably Mauritius, Réunion, and Java. Australia and South America were the chief suppliers, with few coming from the…
Concubines and Courtesans: Women and Slavery in Islamic History, ed. Matthew S. Gordon and Kathryn A. Hain
Beverly Lemire. Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c. 1500–1820
In Global Trade and the Transformation of Consumer Cultures: The Material World Remade, c. 1500–1820, Beverley Lemire refuses to take the easy path through the most abundant sources for the period, which make relatively little mention of ordinary people or of the non-European world. Instead, she magisterially demonstrates that historians can recover patterns of early modern popular consumption around the world, as a result of some energetic diggi…
Mules in the Indian Ocean World: Breeding and Trade in the Long Nineteenth Century, 1780s to 1918
Elephants in Mongol History: From Military Obstacles to Symbols of Buddhist Power
Jihad in West Africa during the age of revolutions
Held’s History of Sumbawa: An Annotated Translation
Hans Hagerdal has edited and translated a Dutch history of the island of Sumbawa, a book left unfinished when its author, Gerrit Jan Held, died suddenly in 1955. Hagerdal has updated the text by ad
Islamic Abolitionism in the Western Indian Ocean From c. 1800
Slavery and Emancipation in Islamic East Africa: From Honor to Respectability By Elisabeth McMahon
The word ‘Islamic’ appears prominently in the title of this book, and yet Islam is scantily addressed in the text itself, which came out of a PhD thesis submitted in 2005. Chapter 4 is the only one where Islam makes a substantial appearance. Even then, major books on Islam in East Africa are not cited, such as those by J. Spencer Trimingham. The author’s field of study is Pemba, the sister island of Unguja in Tanzania’s semi-autonomous province o…
Amalia Ribi Forclaz. Humanitarian Imperialism: The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880–1940
Authors often adopt titles that do not accurately reflect the content of their book, and this is a case in point. Humanitarian Imperialism: The Politics of Anti-Slavery Activism, 1880–1940 emerges from an Oxford Ph.D. thesis with almost exactly the same title, albeit restricted to the interwar years. Any reader wishing to find out about the development of abolitionism in non-Western societies will find nothing here, and Amalia Ribi Forclaz primar…
Africa's “Battle for Rubber” in the Second World War
Africa accounted for only a little over 1 percent of the global output natural rubber when the Second World War broke out. Production had fallen drastically from the early 1910s, when Africa produced about 13 percent of the world's rubber. Most of this came from wild plants, but Africans had planted rubber during the great boom that ended in 1913, often “encouraged” by officials. In wetter areas, they usually grew indigenous Funtumia elastica, or…
The Textile Industry of Eastern Africa in the Longue Durée
Introduction Historians are divided over the issue of the role of textiles in the economic development of eastern Africa, defined here as stretching from the Sudan to South Africa. Ravi Palat and Immanuel Wallerstein claim that India “deindustrialized” its Indian Ocean periphery by exploiting advanced textile techniques and cheap labor (Palat and Wallerstein 1999, 36–7). Similarly, John Mack and Pedro Machado contend that Indian imports fatally u…
Islamic Abolitionism in the Western Indian Ocean from c. 1800
Chapter 5 posits that Islamic abolitionism is not a contradiction in terms. It notes that a quasi-abolitionist line of thinking was the first to emerge among Muslim intellectuals in the nineteenth century, adhering to classical interpretations of Islamic law, but creating practical solutions for the elimination of slavery and slave-trading. The chapter then identifies three separate groups of thinkers on the abolition of slavery in Islam: (1) rad…
The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War
The British “Official Mind” and Nineteenth-Century Islamic Debates over the Abolition of Slavery
The Battle for Rubber in the Second World War: Cooperation and Resistance
As part of a broader study, John Tully has recently tackled the social history of rubber in the Second World War, at a time when control of this commodity assumed urgent strategic significance, due to the mechanisation of the world s armed forces.1 This is a welcome development, but Tully s story leaves many crucial gaps. Moreover, his narrative pits grasping and greedy elites against a combative and heroic workforce, allowing for few or no shade…
The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
White Servitude
Despite marked geographical and temporal differences across the Western Hemisphere, white servitude remained a distinct and significant phenomenon to the end of the early modern period. The area is defined broadly to include the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa, and the specific cases of Russia and Eastern Europe are covered in greater detail in other chapters in this volume. White servitude was present to some degree throughout this…
Synthetic and temperate rubber in the interwar years and during the Second World War
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Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement and the Longue Duree * Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo
Journal Article Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement and the longue durée Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo Get access Southeast Asia and the Middle East: Islam, Movement and the longue durée Edited by Eric Tagliacozzo (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2009), 392 pp. Price PB £27.95. EAN 978–0804761338. William G. Clarence-Smith William G. Clarence-Smith School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London E-mail: wgclarencesm…
Lorenzo Macagno, Outros muçulmanos. Islão e narrativas coloniais: Lisbon, Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2006, 254 pages
The vague title of this book fails to indicate that the subject is Mozambican Islam in late colonial and post-colonial times. The topic is of crucial relevance to the future of Mozambique, for a large and growing proportion of the population is Muslim, especially in the north, with Nampula as its centre. Islam was generally neglected in the colonial period, except at its very end, and was a taboo subject for much of the time that Samora Machel wa…
The Graves of Tarim: Genealogy and Mobility across the Indian Ocean
Notes De Lecture
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Hadhrami Traders, Scholars and Statesmen in the Indian Ocean, 1750s-1960s
This volume covers the long neglected history of Hadhramaut (southern Arabia) during the modern colonial era, together with the history of Hadhrami "colonies" in the Malay world, southern India, the Red Sea, and East Africa. After an introduction placing Hadhramis in the context of other diasporas, there are sections on local and international politics, social stratification and integration, religious and social reform, and economic dynamics. The…
The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola, 1840-1926
List of illustrations Preface Note on proper names Note on currency Abbreviations Introduction 1. Land and peoples 2. The colonial context 3. The economy of the colonial nucleus 4. Society and politics in the colonial nucleus 5. The peasant economy 6. Peasant societies 7. Epilogue Maps and graphs Sources and bibliography Index
Underdevelopment and Class Formation in Ovamboland, 1845–1915
The Ovambo and their Nkhumbi neighbours live in a flood plain, which is artificially divided by the present frontier between Angola and Namibia. From the mid-nineteenth century until World War I, they underwent a process of underdevelopment and class formation linked to the evolution of commercial relations with western societies. Between 1845 and 1885 the ivory trade temporarily enriched the Ovambo and widened the productive base of their econom…
Slaves, Commoners and Landlords in Bulozi, c. 1875 to 1906
The much-researched history of Bulozi in the late nineteenth century is re-assessed here from a marxist viewpoint. A hereditary class of landlords owned the principal means of production and extracted rent in labour services and in kind from the direct producers. Tribute was also paid to the king and royal family, in recognition of the ultimate royal ownership of the means of production. Surplus was employed to increase leisure time, to indulge i…
Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola 1840-1926
The myth of uneconomic imperialism: The Portuguese in Angola, 1836-1926
(1979). The myth of uneconomic imperialism: the Portuguese in Angola, 1836–1926. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 165-180
Angola: Five Centuries of Conflict
Middle Eastern Migrants in the Philippines: Entrepreneurs and Cultural Brokers
Labour conditions in the plantations of São tomé and príncipe, 1875–1914
(1993). Labour conditions in the plantations of Sao tome and principe, 1875–1914. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 14, The wage of Slavery: From Chattel Slavery to wage labour in Africa, the Caribbean and England, pp. 149-167
The Economics of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea Slave Trades in the 19th Century: An Overview
(1988). The Economics of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea Slave Trades in the 19th Century: An Overview. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 9, The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 1-20
African and European Cocoa Producers on Fernando Póo, 1880s to 1910s
The decline of the Creole or Fernandino planters of Fernando Póo came later and was less severe than has sometimes been said, while the indigenous Bubi inhabitants played a far greater role in the development of the cocoa economy than has usually been acknowledged. Social discrimination against Creoles and Bubi was of little significance. The re-direction of Fernandian exports to Spain from the 1890s had no negative effect on African producers, a…
The economic role of the Arab community in Maluku, 1816 to 1940
Capitalist penetration among the Nyaneka of southern Angola, 1760s to 1920s
Evolution du commerce d'exportation pre-colonial (ivoire, esclaves). Etablissement de l'administration coloniale: developpement du commerce du betail| changements socio-politiques induits par la colonisation
Planters and smallholders in Portuguese Timor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
(1992). Planters and smallholders in Portuguese Timor in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 20, No. 57, pp. 15-30
Slavery in coastal southern Angola, 1875-1913
Labour relations in Portuguese Africa have rarely been discussed dispassionately. The emotive issue of slavery has often been linked to the equally emotive issue of whether Portugal should be allowed to have African colonies at all. This situation has produced a polemical and often dishonest literature, in which both the Portuguese nationalists and their attackers have deformed and caricatured the nature of labour relations out of all recognition…
Cent ans de resistance au sous-developpement: L'industrialisation de l'Amerique Latine et du Moyen-Orient face au defi europeen, 1770-1870
Business Empires in Equatorial Africa
In 1976, A. G. Hopkins called for the development of African business history. The workshop held in the School of Oriental and African Studies in May 1982 attempted to answer this call in regard to one of the most neglected regions of the continent, Equatorial or West Central Africa. Sixteen papers were presented by four discussants, and one arrived too late for discussion. The contributions in French and English ranged widely in content and prov…
Class structure and class struggles in Angola in the 1970s
(1980). Class structure and class struggles in Angola in the 1970s. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 109-126
The impact of forced coffee cultivation on Java, 1805–1917
(1994). The impact of forced coffee cultivation on Java, 1805–1917. Indonesia Circle. School of Oriental & African Studies. Newsletter: Vol. 22, No. 64, pp. 241-264
The dynamics of the African slave trade
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Slavery in Africa and the Slave Trades from Africa
The Economic Dynamics of Spanish Colonialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The survival of the Spanish empire after the loss of the mainland American colonies is a neglected subject, and no part of it is more neglected than its economic features. General histories of Spain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries rarely touch on overseas matters, although the colonies do occasionally appear centre stage, as in 1868, when the Cuban Creoles rose in rebellion; in 1898, when Spain lost most of her colonies as a result of w…
Runaway slaves and social bandits in Southern Angola, 1875–1913
(1985). Runaway slaves and social bandits in Southern Angola, 1875–1913. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 6, Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World, pp. 23-33
For Braudel: A Note on the ‘Ecole des Annales ’ and the Historiography of Africa
The historiography of continental Europe has been revolutionized since the Second World War by a group of historians generally known as Annales School, from the name of the periodical which has served as their principal forum. Originally a somewhat eccentric group, they have come in the eyes of many to incarnate historical orthodoxy. And yet Africa has scarcely been touched by these profound currents which have so powerfully affected Europe. It t…
Portugal and Africa
Journal Article PORTUGAL AND AFRICA Get access Portugal e o Futuro, by António de Spínola. Arcádia, Lisbon, 1974. 244pp. n.p. W. G. CLARENCE-SMITH W. G. CLARENCE-SMITH School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 292, July 1974, Pages 374–376, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096502 Published: 01 July 1974
Underdevelopment and Class Formation in Ovamboland, 1845–1915
The Ovambo and their Nkhumbi neighbours live in a flood plain, which is artificially divided by the present frontier between Angola and Namibia. From the mid-nineteenth century until World War I, they underwent a process of underdevelopment and class formation linked to the evolution of commercial relations with western societies. Between 1845 and 1885 the ivory trade temporarily enriched the Ovambo and widened the productive base of their econom…
Congo to Cape: Early Portuguese explorers
Journal Article Congo to Cape: early Portuguese explorers Get access Congo to Cape: early Portuguese explorers, by Eric Axelson. Faber, 1973. 224pp. Illustrated, 3 maps, bibliography, index. £3.50. W. G. CLARENCE-SMITH W. G. CLARENCE-SMITH School of Oriental and African StudiesLondon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 294, January 1975, Page 109, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfor…
Slavery in coastal southern Angola, 1875-1913
Labour relations in Portuguese Africa have rarely been discussed dispassionately. The emotive issue of slavery has often been linked to the equally emotive issue of whether Portugal should be allowed to have African colonies at all. This situation has produced a polemical and often dishonest literature, in which both the Portuguese nationalists and their attackers have deformed and caricatured the nature of labour relations out of all recognition…
For Braudel: A Note on the ‘Ecole des Annales ’ and the Historiography of Africa
The historiography of continental Europe has been revolutionized since the Second World War by a group of historians generally known as Annales School, from the name of the periodical which has served as their principal forum. Originally a somewhat eccentric group, they have come in the eyes of many to incarnate historical orthodoxy. And yet Africa has scarcely been touched by these profound currents which have so powerfully affected Europe. It t…
Capitalist penetration among the Nyaneka of southern Angola, 1760s to 1920s
Evolution du commerce d'exportation pre-colonial (ivoire, esclaves). Etablissement de l'administration coloniale: developpement du commerce du betail| changements socio-politiques induits par la colonisation
Books reviewed
René Pélissier, Les guerres grises, résistance et révoltes en Angola (1845–1941), and La colonie du minotaure, nationalismes et révoltes en Angola (1926–1961) (Orgeval: Pelissier, 1977 and 1978. pp. 630 and 727, 17 and 15 maps, 280 French Francs for the set) Jon Blair and Norman Fenton, The Biko Inquest (Rex Collings, London, 1978. Pp. 61. £1.75) Hilda Bernstein, No. 46—Steve Biko (International Defence and Aid for Southern Africa. Pp. 150. £1.50…
Slaves, Commoners and Landlords in Bulozi, c. 1875 to 1906
The much-researched history of Bulozi in the late nineteenth century is re-assessed here from a marxist viewpoint. A hereditary class of landlords owned the principal means of production and extracted rent in labour services and in kind from the direct producers. Tribute was also paid to the king and royal family, in recognition of the ultimate royal ownership of the means of production. Surplus was employed to increase leisure time, to indulge i…
The myth of uneconomic imperialism: The Portuguese in Angola, 1836-1926
(1979). The myth of uneconomic imperialism: the Portuguese in Angola, 1836–1926. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 165-180
Class structure and class struggles in Angola in the 1970s
(1980). Class structure and class struggles in Angola in the 1970s. Journal of Southern African Studies: Vol. 7, No. 1, pp. 109-126
Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola, 1840-1926
List of illustrations Preface Note on proper names Note on currency Abbreviations Introduction 1. Land and peoples 2. The colonial context 3. The economy of the colonial nucleus 4. Society and politics in the colonial nucleus 5. The peasant economy 6. Peasant societies 7. Epilogue Maps and graphs Sources and bibliography Index
Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola 1840-1926
Slaves, Peasants and Capitalists in Southern Angola 1840-1926
Books reviewed
George Frederickson, White Supremacy: A Comparative Study in American and South African History (New York: Oxford University Press, 1981), xxv + 356 pp. £12.50 Maurice Nyagumbo, With the People: an autobiography from the Zimbabwe struggle (London, Allison & Busby, 1980, pp. 248, £9.95. £3.95 p/b). J. A. C. Mutambirwa, The Rise of Settler Power in Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe), 1898–1923 (New Jersey, Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1980, pp. …
Angola: Five Centuries of Conflict
Business Empires in Equatorial Africa
In 1976, A. G. Hopkins called for the development of African business history. The workshop held in the School of Oriental and African Studies in May 1982 attempted to answer this call in regard to one of the most neglected regions of the continent, Equatorial or West Central Africa. Sixteen papers were presented by four discussants, and one arrived too late for discussion. The contributions in French and English ranged widely in content and prov…
Books reviewed
Adam Kuper, Wives for Cattle: Bridewealth and Marriage in Southern Africa (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982), pp. xiv + 202. £11.95. Eileen Jensen Krige and John L. Comaroff (eds.), Essays on African Marriage in Southern Africa (Cape Town, Johannesburg: Juta, 1981), pp. xvii + 205. R 21,95. A. L. Epstein, Urbanization and Kinship: The Domestic Domain on the Copperbelt of Zambia, 1950–1956 (London: Academic Press, 1981), pp. xii + 364. £16.80.…
Books/Livres
Runaway slaves and social bandits in Southern Angola, 1875–1913
(1985). Runaway slaves and social bandits in Southern Angola, 1875–1913. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 6, Out of the House of Bondage: Runaways, Resistance and Marronage in Africa and the New World, pp. 23-33
Colonial Rule and Regional Imbalance in Central Africa
The Economics of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea Slave Trades in the 19th Century: An Overview
(1988). The Economics of the Indian Ocean and Red Sea Slave Trades in the 19th Century: An Overview. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 9, The Economics of the Indian Ocean Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century, pp. 1-20
Equatorial Guinea. An African tragedy
Journal Article Equatorial Guinea. An African tragedy Get access Equatorial Guinea. An African tragedy, by Randall Fegley. Peter Lang, New York, 1989. ix + 310 pp. $42.95. ISBN 0 8204 0977 4. W. G. CLARENCE-SMITH W. G. CLARENCE-SMITH School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 89, Issue 357, October 1990, Pages 603–604, https://doi.or…
Small is not always beautiful. The story of Equatorial Guinea
Journal Article Small is not always beautiful. The story of Equatorial Guinea Get access Small is not always beautiful. The story of Equatorial Guinea, by Max Liniger-Goumaz. C. Hurst, London, 1988. xx + 198 pp. £19.50 hardback. ISBN 1 850650 23 3. Comment on S'empare d'un Pays, I. La Guinée Equatoriale, by Max LinigerGoumaz. Les Editions du Temps, Geneva, 1989. 368 pp. S.Fr3300. W. G. CLARENCE-SMITH W. G. CLARENCE-SMITH School of Oriental and Af…
The Economic Dynamics of Spanish Colonialism in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The survival of the Spanish empire after the loss of the mainland American colonies is a neglected subject, and no part of it is more neglected than its economic features. General histories of Spain in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries rarely touch on overseas matters, although the colonies do occasionally appear centre stage, as in 1868, when the Cuban Creoles rose in rebellion; in 1898, when Spain lost most of her colonies as a result of w…
Cent ans de resistance au sous-developpement: L'industrialisation de l'Amerique Latine et du Moyen-Orient face au defi europeen, 1770-1870
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