Chapurukha M. Kusimba (University of South Florida)

Swahili Worlds in Globalism

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Produktbeschreibung

Discusses a medieval African urban society as a product of interactions among African communities who inhabited the region between 100 BCE and 500 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.

Produktdetails

• Elements in the Global Middle Ages
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 106
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 6mm
• Gewicht: 190g
• ISBN-13: 9781009074056
• ISBN-10: 1009074059
• Artikelnr.: 69791282

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: Swahili Worlds: A Medieval African Urban Civilization
1. Foundations of a Medieval African Urban Civilization
2. The Rise of the Medieval Swahili State
3. What Was the Medieval East African World Like?
4. Global Connections
5. Asian Connections
6. Who Were the Medieval East Africans?
Appendices.