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KORDOFAN INVADED: PERIPHERAL INCORPORATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN ISLAMIC AFRICA.
Africa Today, June, 1999 by Kapteijns, Lidwien
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Stiansen, Endre and Michael Kevane, eds. 1998. KORDOFAN INVADED: PERIPHERAL INCORPORATION AND SOCIAL TRANSFORMATION IN ISLAMIC AFRICA. Leiden: Brill.
This volume consists of twelve essays (one introductory) about the history of Kordofan in northwest Sudan. In chapter 1, Spaulding gives a well-crafted summary of what is known about early Kordofan, drawing on inferences from comparative linguistics and a wide range of precolonial historical texts. In chapter 2, Stiansen analyzes the economic practices and local connections of foreign traders in Kordofan's nineteenth-century ...
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