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
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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