On Trans - Saharan Trails: Islamic Law, Trade Networks, And Cross - Cultural Exchange In Nineteenth - Century Western Africa
First Statement of Responsibility
/ Ghislaine Lydon
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Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge; UK; New York
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: Cambridge University Press
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
, 2009.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xxviii, 468 p.
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: maps
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Code E.Book: 2874
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Index
CONTENTS NOTE
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"Making history" across the African divide -- Trans-Saharan trade in the Longue durée -- Markets and the movement of caravans : nineteenth-century developments -- Guelmīm and the Wād Nūn traders -- The organization of the caravan trade -- Business practice and legal culture in a paper economy of faith -- Trade networks and the limits of cooperative behavior -- On trans-Saharan trails.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Trade routes -- Sahara -- History -- 19th century.
Trade routes -- Africa, West -- History -- 19th century.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Sahara -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.
صحرا -- بازرگانی -- تاریخ -- قرن ۱۹
Africa, West -- Commerce -- History -- 19th century.