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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Oxford, UK
Oxford University Press
2010
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| Series: | New Oxford world history
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Table of Contents:
- 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: Religions, Languages, Literature, and the Arts; 6. European Colonialism: Disruption and Continuity of Trans-Saharan Links