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Saharan Crossroads
Author | : Tara F. Deubel,Hélène Tissières,Scott M. Youngstedt |
Publsiher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 425 |
Release | : 2014-06-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781443862899 |
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Saharan Crossroads: Exploring Historical, Cultural, and Artistic Linkages between North and West Africa counteracts the traditional scholarly conception of the Sahara Desert as an impenetrable barrier dividing the continent by employing an interdisciplinary lens to examine myriad interconnections between North and West Africa through travel, trade, communication, cultural exchange, and correspondence that have been ongoing for several millennia. Saharan Crossroads offers a unique contribution to existing scholarship on the region by uniting a diverse group of African, European, and American scholars working on various facets of trans-Saharan history, social life, and cultural production, and bringing their work together for the first time. This trilingual volume includes eleven chapters written in English, five chapters in French, and three chapters in Arabic, reflecting the multicultural nature of the Sahara and this international project. Saharan Crossroads explores historical and contemporary connections and exchanges between populations living in and on both sides of the Sahara that have led to the emergence of distinctive cultural and aesthetic expressions. This contact has been fostered by a series of linkages that include the trans-Saharan caravan trade, the spread of Islam, the migration of nomadic pastoralists, and European colonization. The book includes three major sections: (1) history, culture, and identity; (2) trans-Saharan circulation of arts, music, ritual performance, and architecture; and (3) religion, law, language, and writing. While the gaze of international political analysts has turned toward the Sahara to follow problematic developments that pose serious threats to human rights and security in the region, it is especially timely to recall that the people and countries of the Sahelo-Saharan world have maintained long histories of peaceful coexistence, interdependence, and cooperation that are too often overlooked in the present.
Saharan Crossroads
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Author | : Anonim |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : OCLC:891405251 |
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Caravans of Gold Fragments in Time
Author | : Kathleen Bickford Berzock |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2019-02-26 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780691182681 |
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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, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois.
Saharan Frontiers
Author | : James McDougall,Judith Scheele |
Publsiher | : Indiana University Press |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2012-06-08 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780253001245 |
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The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as "the second face of the Mediterranean." The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a story of densely interdependent networks that span the desert's vast expanse. They explore the relationship between the desert's "islands" and "shores" and the connections and commonalities that unite the region. Contributors draw on extensive ethnographic and historical research to address topics such as trade and migration; local notions of place, territoriality, and movement; Saharan cities; and the links among ecological, regional, and world-historical approaches to understanding the Sahara.
The Trans Saharan Slave Trade
Author | : John Wright |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2007-04-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781134179879 |
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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 slave trades out of Africa, which from the seventh to the twentieth centuries quielty delievered almost as many black Africans into foreign servitude as did the far busier, but much briefer Atlantic and East African trades. Illuminating for the first time a significant, but ignored subject, the book supports and widens current scholarly examination of Africans' essential role in the enslavement of fellow-Africans and their delivery to internal, Atlantic or trans-Saharan markets.
The Trans Saharan Book Trade
Author | : Graziano Krätli,Ghislaine Lydon |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 441 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9789004187429 |
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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 as the creation of manuscript libraries, this book consists of a collection of twelve essays that examine these issues from an interdisciplinary perspective.
Palestine at the Crossroads
Author | : Ernest Main |
Publsiher | : London, Allen |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : Arab-Israeli conflict |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105119703689 |
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At the Crossroads
Author | : Adriaan Verspoor |
Publsiher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 2008-01-01 |
Genre | : Education, Secondary |
ISBN | : 9780821371145 |
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Expanded access to and improved quality of secondary education in Sub-Saharan Africa are key ingredients for economic growth in the region This Secondary Education in Africa (SEIA) synthesis report makes this point by bringing together a significant volume of analytical work sponsored by the World Bank and by many African and international partners. 'At the Crossroads: Choices for Secondary Education in Sub-Saharan Africa' argues the case for broad and equitable access for a basic education cycle of 8 to 10 years, as well as for expanded education and training opportunities. This book provides a timely resource on good practices and potential solutions for developing and sustaining high quality secondary education systems in Africa. It includes the main elements of a roadmap to improve Africa's secondary education systems' response to the demands of growing economies and rapidly changing societies.