Item Display - Trans-Saharan Africa in world history

Bibligraphic Information

Title

Trans-Saharan Africa in world history

Author

Austen, Ralph A.  

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Pub date:

cop. 2010

Pages:

1 vol. (157 p.) ;

Number of items

1 copie(s) available .
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  Holdings

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MARC Record

ISBN:

978-0-19-515731-4

Geographic area code:

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Subject category:

OM

Dewey class number:

961

Other class number:

961

Personal Author:

Austen, Ralph A.

Title:

Trans-Saharan Africa in world history / Ralph A. Austen

Publication info:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, cop. 2010

Physical descrip:

1 vol. (157 p.) ; 24 cm

Series:

(The new Oxford world history)

Bibliography note:

Bibliogr. p. 145-148

Summary:

"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...

Summary:

"This book tells the story of an African world that grew out of more than one thousand years of trans-Saharan trade linking the Mediterranean lands of North Africa with the internal Sudanic grasslands stretching from the Nile River to the Atlantic Ocean. It traces the early role of the Sahara, the globe's largest desert, as a divider that separated these two regions into very different worlds. During the heyday of camel caravan traffic--from the eighth-century CE Arab invasions of North Africa to the early-twentieth-century building of European colonial railroads that linked the Sudan with the Atlantic--the Sahara became one of the world's great commercial highways...

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