African Dominion
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-17742-7 (ISBN)
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.
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.
Preface vii
Prologue 1
PART I EARLY SAHEL AND SAVANNAH 9
1 The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity
and Global Context 11
2 Early Gao 19
3 The Kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the
Senegal River 30
4 Slavery and Race Imagined in Bilad As-Sudan 43
PART II IMPERIAL MALI 59
5 The Meanings of Sunjata and the Dawn of
Imperial Mali 61
6 Mansa Musa and Global Mali 92
7 Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Battuta 144
PART III IMPERIAL SONGHAY 167
8 Sunni `Ali and the Reinvention of Songhay 169
9 The Sunni and the Scholars: A Tale of Revenge 193
10 Renaissance: The Age of Askia Al-Hajj Muhammad 219
11 Of Clerics and Concubines 258
PART IV LE DERNIER DE L'EMPIRE 313
12 Of Fitnas and Fratricide: The Nadir of Imperial
Songhay 315
13 Surfeit and Stability: The Era of Askia Dawud 334
14 The Rending Asunder: Dominion's End 355
Epilogue A Thousand Years 369
Notes 373
Select Bibliography 469
Index 479
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.01.2018 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8 Maps |
| Verlagsort | New Jersey |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 851 g |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-691-17742-2 / 0691177422 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-691-17742-7 / 9780691177427 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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