African Dominion : A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa /

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A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region's history in a generati...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Gomez, Michael A., 1955- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Slavery.
Islam.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Islam > Afrique occidentale > Histoire.
Slavery > Africa, West > History.
Islam > Africa, West > History.
West Africa.
Afrique occidentale > Histoire > Jusqu'à 1884.
Africa, West > History > To 1884.
History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Part I. Early Sahel and Savannah
  • Prologue
  • The Middle Niger in pre-antiquity and global context
  • Early Gao
  • The kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River
  • Slavery and race imagined in Bilad as-Sudan
  • Part II. Imperial Mali
  • The meanings of Sunjata and the dawn of imperial Mali
  • Mansa Musa and global Mali
  • Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭuṭa
  • Part III. Imperial Songhay
  • Sunni 'Ali and the reinvention of Songhay
  • The Sunni and the scholars: a tale of revenge
  • Renaissance: the age of Askia al-Ḥajj Muḥammad
  • Of clerics and concubines
  • Part IV. Le dernier de l'empire
  • Of fitnas and fratricide: The nadir of imperial Songhay
  • Surfeit and stability: The era of Askia Dawud
  • The rending asunder: Dominion's end
  • Epilogue: A thousand years.

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