Swahili Worlds in Globalism Hardback
by Chapurukha M. (University of South Florida) Kusimba
Part of the Elements in the Global Middle Ages series
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This Element discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 CE.
It deviates from standard approaches that credit urbanism and state in Africa to non-African agents.
East Africa, then and now, was part of the broader world of the Indian Ocean.
Globalism coincided with the political and economic transformations that occurred during the Tang-Sung-Yuan-Ming and Islamic Dynastic times, 600-1500 CE.
Positioned as the gateway into and out of eastern Africa, the Swahili coast became a site through which people, inventions, and innovations bi-directionally migrated, were adopted, and evolved.
Swahili peoples' agency and unique characteristics cannot be seen only through Islam's prism.
Instead, their unique character is a consequence of social and economic interactions of actors along the coast, inland, and beyond the Indian Ocean.
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- Pages:106 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781009495080
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Out of StockMore expected soonContact us for further information
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:106 pages, Worked examples or Exercises
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/01/2024
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- ISBN:9781009495080
