Download or read book Ancient West African Kingdoms written by Mary Quigley and published by Heinemann Educational Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
Download or read book Ancient West African Kingdoms written by Jane Shuter and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the culture and civilizations of the ancient West African Kingdoms of Mali, Ghana, and Songhai.
Download or read book West African Kingdoms in the Nineteenth Century written by Daryll Forde and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-10 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1967 this volume presents studies of 10 West African kingdoms which have played an important part in the economic, political and cultural life of the region. Ranging geographically from the kingdom of Benin in southern Nigeria to the Wolof kingdom of Kayor in Senegal, they inlcude the Oyo Yoruba, Dahomey, Hausa, Maradi, Kom in West Cameroon, the Mossi, Ashanti and Gonja and the Mende chiefdoms of Sierra Leone. Each outlines the historical origins and development of the kingdom and analyses its organization in the nineteenth century. It includes accounts of the economic basis and resources of the state and the significance of tribute and trade, of the social categories among its population, the administrarive machinery and communnications, the judicial and military organization and external relations. It also considers the importance of the ideology and rituals of kingship.
Download or read book Ancient Kingdoms of West Africa written by Dierk Lange and published by J.H.Röll Verlag. This book was released on 2004 with total page 603 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book African Dominion written by Michael A. Gomez and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book West African Kingdoms written by Katherine E. Reece and published by Carson-Dellosa Publishing. This book was released on 2005-08-01 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores Ancient West African Civilization's Importance, Place In History, And Major Contributions To Society.
Download or read book West African Kingdoms written by Beth Nelson and published by . This book was released on 2001-09 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn about the daily life and culture of the people who lived long ago in Africa.
Download or read book The Royal Kingdoms of Ghana Mali and Songhay written by Patricia McKissack and published by Square Fish. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For more than a thousand years, from A.D. 500 to 1700, the medieval kingdoms of Ghana, Mali, and Songhay grew rich on the gold, salt, and slave trade that stretched across Africa. Scraping away hundreds of years of ignorance, prejudice, and mythology, award-winnnig authors Patricia and Fredrick McKissack reveal the glory of these forgotten empires while inviting us to share in the inspiring process of historical recovery that is taking place today.
Download or read book Empires of Medieval West Africa written by David C. Conrad and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores empires of medieval west Africa.
Download or read book Ancient West African Kingdoms written by Jane Shuter and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2008-08 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides an overview of the culture and civilizations of the ancient West African Kingdoms of Mali, Ghana, and Songhai.
Download or read book Centuries of Greatness written by Philip Koslow and published by Facts On File. This book was released on 1995 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines the history of the kingdoms of West Africa from the 8th through the 19th centuries.
Download or read book History and Activities of the West African Kingdoms written by Gary E. Barr and published by Heinemann-Raintree Library. This book was released on 2007 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered what life was really like in the West African Kingdoms? What did people wear? What did they eat? What sorts of games did kids play? Through history, recipes, crafts, activities, and games this series gives you a chance to experience what life was like throughout history.
Download or read book West African Kingdoms written by John Haywood and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2008-06-05 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a tour of West African kingdoms between 1200 and 1600, discussing facts about religion, war, slavery, diet, houses, politics, culture, transportation, crime, and illness.
Download or read book West African Kingdoms 500 1590 written by Pierre-Damien Mvuyekure and published by World Eras. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, focusing on West African kingdoms and empires, presents topical entries on events, ideas, developments, material conditions, and personalities.
Download or read book A Fistful of Shells written by Toby Green and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.
Download or read book Ancient West African Kingdoms written by Mary Quigley and published by Capstone Classroom. This book was released on 2002-01-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the social, economic, political, and cultural life of the people of ancient Ghana, Mali, and Songhai, including profiles of influential citizens.
Download or read book West African Kingdom written by Katherine E. Reece and published by Rourke Publishing (FL). This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores ancient West African civilization's importance, place in history, and major contributions to society.
