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LEADER: 01655cam a22003258a 4500
001 2005023664
003 DLC
005 20100205083745.0
008 050815s2005 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005023664
020 $a1592214258 (pbk.)
020 $a1592214266 (cloth)
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050 00 $aHF3920$b.L68 2005
082 00 $a381/.088/2970966$222
100 1 $aLovejoy, Paul E.
245 10 $aEcology and ethnography of Muslim trade in West Africa /$cPaul E. Lovejoy.
260 $aTrenton, NJ :$bAfrica World Press,$cc2005.
263 $a0509
300 $ap. cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aEcology and trade in West Africa -- The desert-side economy of the Central Sudan -- The Borno salt industry -- Kola in the history of West Africa -- Wangara merchants in the Central Sudan in the 15th and 16th centuries -- Islam and the 19th century Hausa kola trade -- The Kambarin Beriberi, a specialized group of hausa kola traders -- Gradations in servility at the desert edge -- Merchants, porters, and teamsters in the Central Sudan -- Trade between Salaga and Kano in the nineteenth century -- Currency and commodities in the regional trade of the Central Sudan -- Trans-Saharan trade and the salt trade compared.
651 0 $aAfrica, West$xCommerce$xHistory.
650 0 $aMerchants$zAfrica, West$xHistory.
650 0 $aMuslims$zAfrica, West$xHistory.
651 0 $aAfrica, West$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aAfrica, West$xSocial conditions.
856 41 $3Table of contents$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0517/2005023664.html