Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions

ISBN-13: 9780821422403 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 432 str.

Paul Lovejoy

Opis

In "Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, " a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihad movement in the context of the age of revolutions commonly associated with the American and French revolutions and the erosion of European imperialist powers and shows how West Africa, too, experienced a period of profound political change in the late eighteenth through the mid-nineteenth century. Paul Lovejoy argues that West Africa was a vital actor in the Atlantic world, and has wrongly been excluded from analyses of the period.