Trade and Empire in Muscat and Zanzibar examines the role of Oman in the Indian Ocean prior to British domination of the region. Omani merchant communities played a crucial part in the development of commercial activity throughout the territories they held in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, especially between Muscat and Zanzibar. M. Reda Bhacker provides a detailed examination of the complex relationship between the merchant community and Oman's rulers. He also traces the local and regional factors that allowed Britain to destroy Oman's largely commercial challenge and emerge as the dominant commercial and political power in the region.

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