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. |
| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| 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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Table of Contents:
- 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
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- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
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- T
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- W
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