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Book Book Leiden University catalogue Leiden University catalogue
Title:Bridges across the Sahara: social, economic, and cultural impact of the trans-Sahara trade during the 19th and 20th centuries
Editor:Ahmida, Ali AbdullatifISNI
Year:2009
Pages:215
Language:English
City of publisher:Newcastle upon Tyne
Publisher:Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN:6612413492; 9786612413490; 144380973X; 9781443809733
Geographic terms:Northern Africa
Subsaharan Africa
Sahara
Subject:mercantile history
Abstract:This collection of essays on the trans-Sahara trade provides both a critique of the hegemony of the image and concept of the Sahara as divide and empty space in African and Middle Eastern Studies, and proposes a new model of Sahara as a bridge. The book is organized into five themes that address the larger critique of the field through the alternative analysis of the trans-Saharan trade: the economic and social organization of the Sahara trade (Ahmed Elyas and Ghislaine Lydon); agency: traders, nomads and slaves (John P. Mason and Terence Walz); colonialism, nationalism, and gun 'smuggling' trade (Fred H. Lawson and Francesco Correale); after colonialism (Meike Meerpohl); and finally, the Saharan imagination, the Sahara from within (Elliot Colla). [ASC Leiden abstract]
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