Trans-Saharan Africa in World History.
During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, sla...
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| Other Authors / Creators: | Austen, Ralph A. |
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| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press USA - OSO, 2010. |
| Series: | New Oxford World History Ser.
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| Local Note: | Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2022. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries. |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Intro -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Preface -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction to the Sahara: From Desert Barrier to Global Highway -- CHAPTER 2 Caravan Commerce and African Economies -- CHAPTER 3 Ruling the Sahara and Its "Shores" -- CHAPTER 4 Islam -- CHAPTER 5 Islamicate Culture -- CHAPTER 6 European Colonialism: Disruption and Continuity of Trans-Saharan Links -- Chronology -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Websites -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z. | |
| 520 | |a During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth century CE arrival of Islam in North Africa to the early twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara was one of the world's great commercial highways, bringing gold, slaves, and other commodities northward and sending both manufactured goods and Mediterranean culture southward into the Sudan. Historian Ralph A. Austen here tells the remarkable story of an African world that grew out of more than one thousand years of trans-Saharan trading. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Islam -- Africa, Northwest -- History. | |
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