Trade and Empire in Muscat and Zanzibar
"This is a welcome addition to the literature. The work's strongest sections reflect Bhacker's imaginative neo-Braudelian perspective, which places Oman and Zanzibar as integral parts of a long-established socioeconomic system that embraced the western Indian Ocean region. Bhacker provides an original, and essentially sound, analysis of hitherto incompletely explained developments." Professor Robert Geran Landen (author of "Oman since 1856"), Middle East Journal, volume 48, 1994.