| Edition |
[Enhanced Credo edition] |
| Description |
1 online resource (25 entries) : 8 images ; digital files |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Prologue -- Part I. Early Sahel and Savannah: chapter 1. The middle Niger in pre-antiquity and global context; chapter 2. Early Gao; chapter 3. The kingdoms of Ghana: reform along the Senegal River; chapter 4. Slavery and race imagined in Bilād As-Sūdān -- Part II. Imperial Mali: chapter 5. The meanings of Sunjata and the dawn of imperial Mali; chapter 6. Mansā Mūsā and global Mali; chapter 7. Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa -- Part III. Imperial Songhay: chapter 8. Sunni ‘Alī and the reinvention of Songhay; chapter 9. The Sunni and the scholars: a tale of revenge; chapter 10. Renaissance: the age of Askia Al-Ḥājj Muḥammad; chapter 11. Of clerics and concubines -- Part IV. Le dernier de l'empire: chapter 12. Of fitnas and fratricide: the nadir of imperial Songhay; chapter 13. Surfeit and stability: the era of Askia Dāwūd; chapter 14. The rending asunder: dominion's end -- Epilogue. A thousand years -- Select bibliography. |
| Access |
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions. |
| Summary |
This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region's history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic manuscripts, oral histories, and recent archaeological findings, Michael Gomez unveils a new vision of how categories of ethnicity, race, gender, and caste emerged in Africa and in global history more generally. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Local Note |
Credo Reference General Reference |
| Subject |
Islam -- Africa, West -- History.
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Islam. |
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West Africa. |
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History. |
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Slavery -- Africa, West -- History.
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Slavery. |
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Africa, West -- History -- To 1884.
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| Chronological Term |
To 1884 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Credo Reference (Firm), distributor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: 0691177422 9780691177427 (DLC) 2017029692 viii, 505 pages : maps |
| ISBN |
9781787854055 electronic version |
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9780691177427 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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0691177422 hardcover ; alkaline paper |
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9780691196824 paperback ; alkaline paper |
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0691196826 paperback ; alkaline paper |
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