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Book | 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 Abdullatif |
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] |