James (Hrsg.) Mcdougall

Saharan Frontiers

Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa

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The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as the second face of the Mediterranean. The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a story of densely interdependent networks that span the desert's vast expanse. They explore the relationship between the desert's islands and shores and the connections and commonalities that unite the… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Scheele, Judith (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-253-00131-3
EAN: 9780253001313
Produktnummer: 20616775
Verlag: Indiana University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 306 S.
Plattform: EPUB
Masse: 1'536 KB
Abbildungen: 10 maps

Über den Autor

James McDougall is Fellow and Tutor in modern history and University Lecturer in twentieth century history at Trinity College, Oxford. He is editor of Nation, Society and Culture in North Africa and author of History and the Culture of Nationalism in Algeria. Judith Scheele, a social anthropologist, is a Research Fellow at All Souls' College, Oxford. She is author of Village Matters: Knowledge, Politics and Community in Kabylia.