Jay A Spaulding

American Civil Society: A Book of Questions and Readings

An Islamic Alliance: 'Ali Dinar and the Sanusiyya, 1906-1916

9-11 And Beyond

9-11 And Beyond

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Personality and Political Culture in Modern Africa: Studies Presented to Professor Harold G. Marcus

Een Kennismaking Met De Afrikaanse Geschiedenis

American Civil Society: A Book of Questions And Readings

American Civil Society: A Book of Questions and Readings

A note to the authors: "I am writing to thank you for putting together such an interesting, motivating and somewhat unconventional text. The selected documents and readings enable me to clearly see a natural chronology and evolution of thought in America. As a direct result, I am inspired to be a be...

The Road to the Two Sudans

Parallel with the previous volume of conference papers in 2008, Sudan's Wars and Peace Agreements, most of these selected and thematic articles were originally presented as papers at the 31st meeting of the Sudan Studies Association (SSA) at Arizona State University in 2012. Since that time, the Com...

African Systems of Slavery

African Systems of Slavery continues a discussion opened by Suzanne Miers and Igor Kopytoff in 1977 with their seminal collection Slavery in Africa. The present volume contains new offerings by original contributors as well as valuable studies by newcomers who share the original editors perspectives...

An Islamic Alliance: Ali Dinar and the Sanusiyya, 1906-1916 (Islam and Society in Africa)

This work presents the Arabic texts and annotated translations of 30 documents exchanged between 'Ali Dinar, Sultan of Darfur, in the Sudan from 1898 to 1916. Through these fortuitously surviving pieces of diplomatic correspondence, the authors throw valuable new light on the foreign policy of 'Ali ...

Secondary Cities and Urban Networking in the Indian Ocean Realm, c. 1400-1800 (Comparative Urban Studies)

With the closure of the overland Silk Road in the fourteenth century following the collapse of the Mongol empire, the Indian Ocean provided the remaining vital link for wider cultural, political, and societal integrations prior to the Western colonial presence. Collectively, these studies explore th...

The Growth of Non-Western Cities: Primary and Secondary Urban Networking, c. 900-1900 (Comparative Urban Studies)

These interdisciplinary studies address pre-1900 non-Western urban growth in the African Sudan, Mexico, the Ottoman Middle East, and South, Southeast, and East Asia. Therein, primary and secondary cities served as functional societal agents that were viable and potentially powerful alternatives to t...

Medieval West Africa: Views from Arab Scholars and Merchants

Kingdoms arose during the early centuries of the Common Era across a wide region of West Africa. A rich source of information about West Africa is available in the Arabic sources written by geographers and chroniclers in the Muslim world between the 8th and the 15th centuries. In this volume are the...

White Nile, Black Blood: War, Leadership, and Ethnicity from Khartoum to Kampala

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