Author: Philip Koslow
Publisher: Chelsea House Pub
ISBN: 9780791031261
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 63
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Discusses the settlement of West Africa, the spread of Islam, the establishment of the gold trade, and the rise, civilization, and fall of the Soninke states known as Ghana
Author: Nehemia Levtzion
Publisher: Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN: 9780841904323
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Author: Mira Bartok
Publisher: Good Year Books
ISBN: 9780673360533
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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Educational resource for teachers, parents and kids!
Author: Patricia McKissack
Publisher: Square Fish
ISBN: 1250113512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.
Author: David C. Conrad
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1604131640
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 153
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Explores empires of medieval west Africa.
Author: Mary Quigley
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9781588104250
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
Author: Rebecca L. Green
Publisher: Franklin Watts
ISBN: 9780531202760
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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A survey of the history and culture of the West African Empire of Ghana that, flourishing from about 750 until 1076, is not related to modern Ghana.
Author: Michael A. Gomez
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400888166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
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A groundbreaking history that puts early and medieval West Africa in a global context Pick up almost any book on early and medieval world history and empire, and where do you find West Africa? On the periphery. This pioneering book, the first on this period of the region’s history in a generation, tells a different story. Interweaving political and social history and drawing on a rich array of sources, including Arabic manuscripts, oral histories, and recent archaeological findings, Michael Gomez unveils a new vision of how categories of ethnicity, race, gender, and caste emerged in Africa and in global history more generally. Scholars have long held that such distinctions arose during the colonial period, but Gomez shows they developed much earlier. Focusing on the Savannah and Sahel region, Gomez traces the exchange of ideas and influences with North Africa and the Central Islamic Lands by way of merchants, scholars, and pilgrims. Islam’s growth in West Africa, in tandem with intensifying commerce that included slaves, resulted in a series of political experiments unique to the region, culminating in the rise of empire. A major preoccupation was the question of who could be legally enslaved, which together with other factors led to the construction of new ideas about ethnicity, race, gender, and caste—long before colonialism and the transatlantic slave trade. Telling a radically new story about early Africa in global history, African Dominion is set to be the standard work on the subject for many years to come.
Author: Holly Littlefield
Publisher: Millbrook Press
ISBN: 0761357971
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 28
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What color is Ghana? It's brown like cocoa beans, blue like Lake Volta, and orange like the background threads in the Kyeretwie Kente Cloth pattern. Get to know Ghana in this beautifully illustrated introduction to a land once known as the Gold Coast.
Author: Eva Lewin-Richter 1899- Meyerowitz
Publisher: Hassell Street Press
ISBN: 9781014701190
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 292
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