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On Trans-Saharan trails : Islamic law, trade networks, and cross-cultural exchange in nineteenth-century Western Africa /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lydon, Ghislaine
Corporate Author: Cambridge University Press
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Sahara > Commerce > History > 19th century.
Africa, West > Commerce > History > 19th century.
Trade routes > Sahara > History > 19th century.
Trade routes > Africa, West > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • "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.