The Trans-Saharan Book Trade

The Trans-Saharan Book Trade
Title The Trans-Saharan Book Trade PDF eBook
Author Graziano Krätli
Publisher BRILL
Pages 441
Release 2011
Genre Reference
ISBN 9004187421

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Concerned with the history of scholarly production, book markets and trans-Saharan exchanges in Muslim African (primarily western and northern Africa), as well as the creation of manuscript libraries, this book consists of a collection of twelve essays that examine these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.

The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade

The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Title The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade PDF eBook
Author John Wright
Publisher Routledge
Pages 241
Release 2007-04-03
Genre History
ISBN 1134179871

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This compelling text sheds light on the important but under studied trans-Saharan slave trade. The author uncovers and surveys this, the least-noticed of the slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades. Illuminating for the first time a significant, but ignored subject, the book supports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans' essential role in the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their delivery to internal, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets.

On Trans-Saharan Trails

On Trans-Saharan Trails
Title On Trans-Saharan Trails PDF eBook
Author Ghislaine Lydon
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 497
Release 2009-03-02
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0521887240

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This study examines the history and organization of trans-Saharan trade in western Africa using original source material.

Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond

Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond
Title Trade in the Ancient Sahara and Beyond PDF eBook
Author D. J. Mattingly
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Pages 470
Release 2017-11-30
Genre Social Science
ISBN 1108195407

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Saharan trade has been much debated in modern times, but the main focus of interest remains the medieval and early modern periods, for which more abundant written sources survive. The pre-Islamic origins of Trans-Saharan trade have been hotly contested over the years, mainly due to a lack of evidence. Many of the key commodities of trade are largely invisible archaeologically, being either of high value like gold and ivory, or organic like slaves and textiles or consumable commodities like salt. However, new research on the Libyan people known as the Garamantes and on their trading partners in the Sudan and Mediterranean Africa requires us to revise our views substantially. In this volume experts re-assess the evidence for a range of goods, including beads, textiles, metalwork and glass, and use it to paint a much more dynamic picture, demonstrating that the pre-Islamic Sahara was a more connected region than previously thought.

Trans-Saharan Africa in World History

Trans-Saharan Africa in World History
Title Trans-Saharan Africa in World History PDF eBook
Author Ralph A. Austen
Publisher Oxford University Press
Pages 176
Release 2010
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 0195337883

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"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. The most enduring impact of this trade and the common cultural reference point of trans-Saharan Africa was Islam. This faith played various roles throughout the region, as a legal system for regulating trade, an inspiration for reformist religious-political movements, and a vehicle of literacy and cosmopolitan knowledge that inspired creativity--often of a very unorthodox kind--within the various ethno-linguistic communities of the region. From the mid-1400s, European voyages to the coast of West and Central Africa provided an alternative international trade route that marginalized trans-Saharan commerce in global terms but stimulated its accelerated local growth. Inland territorial conquest by France and Britain in the 1800s and early 1900s brought more serious disruptions. Trans-Saharan culture, however, not only adapted to these colonial and postcolonial changes but often thrived upon them to remain a living force well into the twenty-first century"--Provided by publisher.

Across the Sahara

Across the Sahara
Title Across the Sahara PDF eBook
Author Klaus Braun
Publisher Springer Nature
Pages 273
Release 2020-08-14
Genre Business & Economics
ISBN 3030001458

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This open access book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues from European travelers, recently found Arab sources, historical maps and results from several expeditions, the book gives an overview of the historical periods of the caravan trade as well as detailed information about the infrastructure which was necessary to establish those trade networks. Included are a variety of unique historical and recent maps as well as remote sensing images of the important trade routes and the corresponding historic oases. To give a deeper understanding of how those trading networks work, aspects such as culturally influenced concepts of spatial orientation are discussed. The book aims to be a useful reference for the caravan trade in the Sahara, that can be recommended both to students and to specialists and researchers in the field of Geography, History and African Studies.

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time

Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Title Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time PDF eBook
Author Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Publisher Princeton University Press
Pages 313
Release 2019-02-26
Genre Art
ISBN 069118268X

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Issued in conjunction with the exhibition Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time, held January 26, 2019-July 21, 2019, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.