Trans-Saharan Africa in world history /

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Synopsis: 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 g...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Austen, Ralph A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Colección:New Oxford world history.
Temas:
Trade routes > Sahara > History.
Islam > Sahara > History.
Routes commerciales > Sahara > Histoire.
Islam > Sahara > Histoire.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Civilization
Commerce
Islam
Trade routes
Sahara > Civilization.
Sahara > Commerce > History.
Sahara > Civilisation.
Sahara > Commerce > Histoire.
Sahara
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Editor's preface
  • Preface 1: Introduction to the Sahara: From Desert Barrier to Global Highway
  • 2: Caravan Commerce and African Economies
  • 3: Ruling the Sahara and Its "Shores"
  • 4: Islam
  • 5: Islamicate Culture
  • 6: European Colonialism: Disruption and Continuity of Trans-Saharan Links
  • Chronology
  • Notes
  • Further reading
  • Websites
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index.

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