Author: Mary Quigley
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9781588104250
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
Ancient West African Kingdoms
Author: Mary Quigley
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9781588104250
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN: 9781588104250
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century
Author: Daryll Forde
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042995851X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Originally published in 1967 this volume presents studies of 10 West African kingdoms which have played an important part in the economic, political and cultural life of the region. Ranging geographically from the kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria to the Wolof kingdom of Kayor in Senegal, they inlcude the Oyo Yoruba, Dahomey, Hausa, Maradi, Kom in West Cameroon, the Mossi, Ashanti and Gonja and the Mende chiefdoms of Sierra Leone. Each outlines the historical origins and development of the kingdom and analyses its organization in the nineteenth century. It includes accounts of the economic basis and resources of the state and the significance of tribute and trade, of the social categories among its population, the administrarive machinery and communnications, the judicial and military organization and external relations. It also considers the importance of the ideology and rituals of kingship.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042995851X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
Originally published in 1967 this volume presents studies of 10 West African kingdoms which have played an important part in the economic, political and cultural life of the region. Ranging geographically from the kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria to the Wolof kingdom of Kayor in Senegal, they inlcude the Oyo Yoruba, Dahomey, Hausa, Maradi, Kom in West Cameroon, the Mossi, Ashanti and Gonja and the Mende chiefdoms of Sierra Leone. Each outlines the historical origins and development of the kingdom and analyses its organization in the nineteenth century. It includes accounts of the economic basis and resources of the state and the significance of tribute and trade, of the social categories among its population, the administrarive machinery and communnications, the judicial and military organization and external relations. It also considers the importance of the ideology and rituals of kingship.
West African Kingdoms
Author: Beth Nelson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739841525
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Learn about the daily life and culture of the people who lived long ago in Africa.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780739841525
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 52
Book Description
Learn about the daily life and culture of the people who lived long ago in Africa.
Ancient West African Kingdoms
Author: Jane Shuter
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781432913328
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Provides an overview of the culture and civilizations of the ancient West African Kingdoms of Mali, Ghana, and Songhai.
Publisher: Heinemann-Raintree Library
ISBN: 9781432913328
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Provides an overview of the culture and civilizations of the ancient West African Kingdoms of Mali, Ghana, and Songhai.
Empires of Medieval West Africa
Author: David C. Conrad
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1604131640
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Explores empires of medieval west Africa.
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
ISBN: 1604131640
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 153
Book Description
Explores empires of medieval west Africa.
The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay
Author: Patricia McKissack
Publisher: Square Fish
ISBN: 1250113512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Square Fish
ISBN: 1250113512
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
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.
African Dominion
Author: Michael A. Gomez
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400888166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400888166
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 521
Book Description
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.
Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa
Author: Dierk Lange
Publisher: J.H.Röll Verlag
ISBN: 3897541157
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
Publisher: J.H.Röll Verlag
ISBN: 3897541157
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 603
Book Description
Ghana, Mali, Songhay
Author: Kenny Mann
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875186566
Category : Ghana (Empire)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A study of the legends and history of the ancient West African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, including background and commentary on Islam's influence in the region
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780875186566
Category : Ghana (Empire)
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
A study of the legends and history of the ancient West African kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay, including background and commentary on Islam's influence in the region
West African Kingdoms, 500-1590
Author: Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure
Publisher: World Eras
ISBN: 9780787660475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume, focusing on West African kingdoms and empires, presents topical entries on events, ideas, developments, material conditions, and personalities.
Publisher: World Eras
ISBN: 9780787660475
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This volume, focusing on West African kingdoms and empires, presents topical entries on events, ideas, developments, material conditions, and personalities.