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Trans-Saharan Africa in World History
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Pages: 176
Authors: Ralph A. Austen
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010 - Publisher: Oxford University Press

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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 Afr
The Trans-Saharan Book Trade
Language: en
Pages: 441
Authors: Graziano Krätli
Categories: Reference
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: BRILL

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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
Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time
Language: en
Pages: 313
Authors: Kathleen Bickford Berzock
Categories: Art
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-02-26 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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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, Northwes
The Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Language: en
Pages: 241
Authors: John Wright
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-04-03 - Publisher: Routledge

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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 sl
The History of African Cities South of the Sahara
Language: en
Pages: 448
Authors: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch
Categories: Africa, Sub-Saharan
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005 - Publisher:

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Cities have existed in sub-Saharan Africa since antiquity. But only now are historians and archaeologists rediscovering their rich heritage: the ancient ruins o