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Colonel Abdulla, Prince of Johanna
Colonization--History, Princes
Studio portrait of Abdullah Bin Alawi, also known as Prince Abudin, the son of a deposed Sultan of Nzwani Island, in the Comoros Archipelago, who...
Show moreStudio portrait of Abdullah Bin Alawi, also known as Prince Abudin, the son of a deposed Sultan of Nzwani Island, in the Comoros Archipelago, who had once represented his father as an ambassador to Mauritius. Though in reality no longer a prince, in early 1858 he managed to convince the British Political Resident in Aden and subsequently other administrators around the globe that they should grant him certain privileges and for almost a decade he travelled the world under various assumed names at the expense of the British Government. Alawi went to Karachi, Muscat, Zanzibar, Madras, Sri Lanka, Aden, Madagascar, Cape Town, Paris and in 1863 he finally made it to London and was last heard of in Cairo in 1866. Jeremy Prestholdt's uphold that the Abdullah Bin Alaw case " [...] reveals the efficacy of cross-cultural performances of similarity - a strategy of appeal that I call similitude - on the stage of global relation. It demonstrates how the strategic uses of imported symbols affected the producers of those symbols and ultimately their relation to Nzwanians. Nzwanians relied on similitude to affect relations with diverse foreigners, including Arab, French, and American visitors. But by exploring the extreme case of Nzwanian appropriations of Englishness, we can more clearly discern how the cultural appropriation of symbols in even seemingly marginal locales has affected patterns of global interrelation". Cit. Prestholdt, J. (2008). Domesticating the world: African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization. Berkeley: University of California Press., p. 13.
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HC.HP.25165
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Item-ID: i1553263x
BIB-ID: 1006689
Prestholdt, J. (2008). Domesticating the world: African consumerism and the genealogies of globalization. Berkeley: University of California Press, pp. 13-17.
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A voyage to Suratt, in the year, 1689: Giving a large account of that city, and its inhabitants, and of the English factory there. Likewise a description of Madeira, St. Jago, Annobon, Cabenda and Malemba (upon the coast of Africa) St. Helena, Johanna, Bombay, the city of Muscatt, and its inhabitants in Arabia Felix, Mocha, and other maritine [sic] towns upon the Red-sea, and the Cape of good hope, and the island Ascension. To which is addded [sic] an appendix, containing I. The history of a late revolution in the kingdom of Golconda. II. A description of the Kingdoms of Arracan and Pegu. III. An account of the coins of the kingdoms of India, Persia, Golconda, &c. IV. Observations concerning the silk-wormsAn appendix. Containing I. The history of a late revolution in the kingdom of Golconda. II. A short description of the kingdom of Arracan, and Pegu. III. A collection of coyns and IV. Observations concerning the nature of the silk-worms
Voyages and travels, Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800, Silkworms, Silkworms--Early works to 1800, Description and travel, Description and travel
By J. Ovington, M.A. Chaplain to His Majesty.
Errata: p. [16] (preliminary sequence).
Half-title.
Signatures: A-Z8 Aa-Qq8 (Qq8 blank).
Appendix has...
Show moreBy J. Ovington, M.A. Chaplain to His Majesty.
Errata: p. [16] (preliminary sequence).
Half-title.
Signatures: A-Z8 Aa-Qq8 (Qq8 blank).
Appendix has separate t.p.
Title within double line border.
From the library of Sir Charles Harding Firth. Imperfect copy: only 1 plate remains. SH/U-1
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