African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Gomez, Michael
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Gomez, Michael

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

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Author: Michael Gomez
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African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Gomez, Michael

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

BD$112.22
African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa by Gomez, Michael

African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa

BD$112.22
Author: Michael Gomez
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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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: Michael Gomez
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 01/01/2018
Pages: 520
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.90lbs
Size: 9.60h x 6.20w x 1.70d
ISBN: 9780691177427


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Choice 08/01/2018

About the Author
Michael A. Gomez is the Silver Professor of History and Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. His books include Black Crescent: African Muslims in the Americas; Exchanging Our Country Marks: The Transformation of African Identities in the Colonial and Antebellum South; Reversing Sail: A History of the African Diaspora; and Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad: The Precolonial State of Bundu.
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