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Ecology and ethnography of Muslim trade in West Africa / Paul E. Lovejoy.
Penn Museum Library HF3920 .L68 2005
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lovejoy, Paul E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Muslims.
- History.
- Merchants.
- Commerce.
- Africa, West--Commerce--History.
- Africa, West.
- Merchants--Africa, West--History.
- Muslims--Africa, West--History.
- Africa, West--Economic conditions.
- West Africa.
- Economic conditions.
- Africa, West--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 407 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [2005]
- Contents:
- Ecology and trade in West Africa
- The desert-side economy of the Central Sudan
- The Borno salt industry
- Kola in the history of West Africa
- Wangara merchants in the Central Sudan in the 15th and 16th centuries
- Islam and the 19th century Hausa kola trade
- The Kambarin Beriberi, a specialized group of hausa kola traders
- Gradations in servility at the desert edge
- Merchants, porters, and teamsters in the Central Sudan
- Trade between Salaga and Kano in the nineteenth century
- Currency and commodities in the regional trade of the Central Sudan
- The trans-Saharan trade and the salt trade compared.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [369]-397) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1592214258
- 1592214266
- OCLC:
- 61285594
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