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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Of disciples and sultans: Power, authority and society in the nineteenth century Mauritanian Gebla
Abstract
dc:descriptionThis dissertation examines processes of political and cultural transformation in the Gebla, the region of southwest Mauritania that lies along the right bank of the Senegal river. Its focus is the nineteenth century, a time of political upheaval, economic change and imperialism in the Senegal valley. Since at least the eighteenth century, a class of Arabic-speaking warriors had exercised political hegemony in the Gebla, collecting tribute from nomadic pastoralists and sedentary cultivators, and levying tolls upon the European trade in gum arabic.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- History
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2011
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Taylor, Raymond Michael
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Stewart, Charles C.
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
dc:rights- Statement dc:rights
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- Copyright 1996 Taylor, Raymond Michael
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
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9780591200119
AAI9712454
(UMI)AAI9712454 - OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/21018