The Swahili : : Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 /

The Swahili : : Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 / / Thomas Spear, Derek Nurse.

"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."-International Journal of African Historical Studies

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
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Nurse, Derek,
Spear, Thomas,
Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]
©1985
Year of Publication:2017
Language:English
Series:The Ethnohistory Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (160 p.) :; 17 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • I. SWAHILI AND THEIR HISTORY
  • 2. THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND OF SWAHILI
  • 3. THE EMERGENCE OF THE SWAHILI-SPEAKING PEOPLES
  • 4. EARLY SWAHILI SOCIETY, 800-1100
  • 5. RISE OF THE SWAHILI TOWNSTATES, 1100-1500
  • APPENDIXES
  • ABBREVIATIONS
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • Index

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