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008			170620s2017 nju b 001 0 eng c
020			_a9780691177427 (hbk ) _c$45.00
040			_aIDSK _beng _cIDSK
041			_aeng _heng
082	0	4	_a966.02 _223 _bG6332a
100	1		_aGomez, Michael A., _d1955- _eauthor. _9608
245	1	0	_aAfrican dominion : _ba new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa / _cMichael A. Gomez.
260			_aPrinceton : _bPrinceton University Press, _c2017.
300			_avi, 505 pages ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aPart I. Early Sahel and Savannah -- Prologue -- The Middle Niger in pre-antiquity and global context -- Early Gao -- The kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River -- Slavery and race imagined in Bilad as-Sudan -- Part II. Imperial Mali -- The meanings of Sunjata and the dawn of imperial Mali -- Mansa Musa and global Mali -- Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭuṭa -- Part III. Imperial Songhay -- Sunni 'Ali and the reinvention of Songhay -- The Sunni and the scholars: a tale of revenge -- Renaissance: the age of Askia al-Ḥajj Muḥammad -- Of clerics and concubines -- Part IV. Le dernier de l'empire -- Of fitnas and fratricide: The nadir of imperial Songhay -- Surfeit and stability: The era of Askia Dawud -- The rending asunder: Dominion's end -- Epilogue: A thousand years.
650		0	_aIslam _zAfrica, West _xHistory. _9609
650		0	_aSlavery _zAfrica, West _xHistory. _9610
651		0	_aAfrica, West _xHistory _yTo 1884. _9611
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