Table of Contents:
  • Foreword
  • 1. The Omani perspective: part I
  • 2. The Omani perspective part II: growing British influence
  • 3. The early Arab penetration into the African mainland
  • 4. Oman and Zanzibar: Britain and France
  • 5. Barghash's reign: the first dozen years
  • 6. The mainland
  • 7. AIC phase I
  • 8. German colonization in East Africa
  • 9. Confrontation
  • 10. The Swahili uprising
  • 11. The Emin pasha Relief Expedition (EPRE): part I
  • 12. The Emin Pasha Relief Expedition: part II
  • 13. EIC: consolidation of state: the Arab zone
  • 14. The Arab zone
  • 15. First clashes
  • 16. War
  • 17. Envoi: Zanzibar 1896
  • Bibliography
  • Index.