Faculty Postholders
Dr Jan-Georg Deutsch
MA (University of Hannover), PhD (School of Oriental and African Studies London), Habilitation (Humboldt-University Berlin)
University Lecturer in Commonwealth History
Email: jan-georg.deutsch@stx.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests
Dr Deutsch works on the social and economic history of Africa from the nineteenth century to the present. He recently published a study of the end of slavery in East Africa. He is currently working on a book on the history of Zanzibar.
Supervision Interests
History of Africa from the nineteenth century to the present
Selected Publications:
- Educating the Middlemen. A Political and Economic History of Statutory Cocoa Marketing in Nigeria, 1936-1947. (Berlin, 1995)
- (ed.) Geschichte in Afrika. Einführung in Probleme und Debatten . (1997)
- (ed.) African Modernities. Entangled Meanings in Current Debate . (Oxford, 2002)
- (ed.) Space on the Move. Transformations of the Indian Ocean Seascape in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries . (Berlin, 2002)
- 'Celebrating Power in Everyday Life. The Administration of Law in Colonial Tanzania, 1890 - 1914', Journal of African Cultural Studies. Vol 15 (2002) pp. 93-104
- 'The Indian Ocean and a very small place in Zanzibar' in Space on the Move. Transformations of the Indian Ocean Seascape in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (Berlin, 2002) pp. 61-73
- 'Introduction: Cherished Visions and Entangled Meanings' in African Modernities. Entangled Meanings in Current Debate. (Oxford, 2002) pp. 1-17
- 'Zanzibar' in Encyclopaedia of Twentieth-Century African History . (London, 2002) pp. 371-75
- 'German Sources on Zanzibar: The Siku Kuu of 1891', Ziff Journal (Zanzibar). Vol 2 (2005) pp. 14-21
- Emancipation without Abolition in German East Africa, c. 1884-1914. (Oxford, 2006) 276pp.
- 'Notes on the Rise of Slavery and Social Change in Unyamwezi, c. 1860-1900' in Slavery in the Great Lake Region of East Africa. (Oxford, 2007) pp. 76-110
- 'Prices for Female Slaves and Changes in their Life Cycle. Evidence from German East Africa' in Women and Slavery. Africa, the Indian Ocean World, and the Medieval North Atlantic. (Athens/Ohio, 2007) pp. 129-44
Future Publications:
- 'Memory, Oral History, and the End of Slavery in Colonial Tanzania.' in Archaeological and Historical Dimensions of Slavery in East and West Africa in Comparative Perspective.
- Soko Mhogo Street. The Social Biography of a Street in Zanzibar Stone Town. (2010)
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