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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Bibliographic Details

Main Author:	Austen, Ralph A. (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford, UK Oxford University Press 2010
Series:	New Oxford world history
Subjects:	Trade routes > Sahara > History Islam > Africa, Northwest > History Africa, Northwest > Commerce > History Africa, Northwest > Civilization Africa, Northwest > History
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