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Traders, saints, and irrigation: relfections on Saharan connectivity
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Studies of trans-Saharan trade have recently been revitalized, mainly through an exploration of local archives. These archives offer a further possibility: to investigate the link between local settlement and wider patterns of exchange. Material from southern Algeria and northern Mali suggests that oases were not viable without outside investment, that pastoral eocnomies needed storage space and agricultural produce, and that intra-Saharan and trans-Saharan trade relied on each other. Hence, ...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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+ "Magdalen College, Oxford", "British Academy"
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Scheele, J
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- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Journal of African History Journal website
- Volume:
- 51
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 281-300
- Publication date:
- 2010-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-5138
- ISSN:
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0021-8537
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- English
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- Local pid:
- ora:5408
- Deposit date:
- 2011-06-06
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- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright date:
- 2010
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- The full-text of this article is not currently available in ORA, but you may be able to access the article via the publisher copy link on this record page. Citation: Scheele, J. (2010). 'Traders, saints, and irrigation: relfections on Saharan connectivity', Journal of African History 51(3), 281-300. [Available at http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayJournal?jid=AFH].
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