African Dominion : : A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa / / Michael Gomez.
A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global contextPick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region's history in a generatio...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2018 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (520 p.) :; 8 maps. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Prologue
- PART I. EARLY SAHEL AND SAVANNAH
- CHAPTER 1. The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity and Global Context
- CHAPTER 2. Early Gao
- CHAPTER 3. The Kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River
- CHAPTER 4. Slavery and Race Imagined in Bilād As-Sūdān
- PART II. IMPERIAL MALI
- CHAPTER 5. The Meanings of Sunjata and the Dawn of Imperial Mali
- CHAPTER 6. Mansā Mūsā and Global Mali
- CHAPTER 7. Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa
- PART III. IMPERIAL SONGHAY
- CHAPTER 8. Sunni 'Alī and the Reinvention of Songhay
- CHAPTER 9. The Sunni and the Scholars: A Tale of Revenge
- CHAPTER 10. Renaissance: The Age of Askia Al-Ḥājj Muḥammad
- CHAPTER 11. Of Clerics and Concubines
- PART IV. LE DERNIER DE L'EMPIRE
- CHAPTER 12. Of Fitnas and Fratricide: The Nadir of Imperial Songhay
- CHAPTER 13. Surfeit and Stability: The Era of Askia Dāwūd
- CHAPTER 14. The Rending Asunder: Dominion's End
- EPILOGUE. A Thousand Years
- Notes
- Select Bibliography
- Index