African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa

African dominion : a new history of empire in early and medieval West Africa / Michael A. Gomez.

Author/creator	Gomez, Michael A., 1955- author.
Format	Book and Print
Publication Info	Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2018]
Description	viii, 505 pages ; 25 cm
Subject(s)	Islam--Africa, West --History. Slavery--Africa, West --History. Africa, West--History --To 1884.

Contents	Part 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2017029692
ISBN	9780691177427
ISBN	0691177422 hardcover ; alkaline paper

Library	Location	Call Number	Status	Item Actions
Joyner	General Stacks	DT476 .G66 2018	✔ Available	Place Hold