African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
Editor/Author
Gomez, Michael A.
Publication Year: 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-691-19682-4
Category: History - World history
Image Count:
8
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
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.
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- PROLOGUE.
- PART I. EARLY SAHEL AND SAVANNAH
- CHAPTER 1. The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity and Global Context
- CHAPTER 2. Early Gao
- CHAPTER 3. The Kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River
- CHAPTER 4. Slavery and Race Imagined in Bilād As-Sūdān
- PART II. IMPERIAL MALI
- CHAPTER 5. The Meanings of Sunjata and the Dawn of Imperial Mali
- CHAPTER 6. Mansā Mūsā and Global Mali
- CHAPTER 7. Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa
- PART III. IMPERIAL SONGHAY
- CHAPTER 8. Sunni ‘Alī and the Reinvention of Songhay
- CHAPTER 9. The Sunni and the Scholars: A Tale of Revenge
- CHAPTER 10. Renaissance: The Age of Askia Al-Ḥājj Muḥammad
- CHAPTER 11. Of Clerics and Concubines
- PART IV. LE DERNIER DE L'EMPIRE
- CHAPTER 12. Of Fitnas and Fratricide: The Nadir of Imperial Songhay
- CHAPTER 13. Surfeit and Stability: The Era of Askia Dāwūd
- CHAPTER 14. The Rending Asunder: Dominion's End
- EPILOGUE. A Thousand Years
- Select Bibliography