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[ 373 ]notesChapter 1: The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity and Global Context1. World history texts include William H. McNeil, A World History (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1999); Chris Harman, A People’s History of the World (New York: Verso, 2008); Richard Bulliet, Pamela Crossley, Daniel Headrick, and Steven Hirsch, The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 4th ed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008); Kenneth Pomerantz, The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Mod-ern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2000); Peter Liddel and Andrew Fear, eds., Historiae Mundi: Studies in Universal History (London: Duckworth, 2010); B.V. Rao, World History: From Early Times to AD 2000, 3rd ed. (Elgin, IL: New Dawn Press, 2006); J.M. Roberts, The New Penguin History of the World, 5 th ed. (London: Penguin, 2007); ___, A Short History of the World (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1993); ___, The New History of the World (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2003); Peter Stearns, Globalization in World History (London and New York: Routledge, 2010); Robert L. Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, and Stephen Kotkin, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, 2nd ed (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008); Ranajit Guha, History at the Limit of World-History(New York: Columbia U. Press, 2002); Pamela Kyle Crossley, What is Global History?(Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008); Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997).2. See Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2010); John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire since 1945 (London: Bloomsbury, 2008); David Abernathy, The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415–1980 (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 2000); Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke, Power and Plenty: Trade, Power, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2007).3. McNeil, A World History, 113. The author cites three sources, all published in the 1950s.4. Ibid, 275–78.5. “At this point we leave Africa, not to mention it again. For it is no historical part of the World; it has no movement or development to exhibit.” G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History, trans. J. Sibree (New York: Dover Publications, 1956), 99.6. Examples of big history include Cynthia Stokes Brown, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present (New York: New Press, 2007); Fred Spier, The Structure of Big History (Amsterdam, Amsterdam U. Press, 1996); ___, Big History and the Fu-ture of Humanity (West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010); Donald R. Kelley, “The Rise of Prehistory,” Journal of World History 14:1 (March 2003): 17–36; David Chris-tian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (Berkeley: U. of California Press,
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[ 373 ]notesChapter 1: The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity and Global Context1. World history texts include William H. McNeil, A World History (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1999); Chris Harman, A People’s History of the World (New York: Verso, 2008); Richard Bulliet, Pamela Crossley, Daniel Headrick, and Steven Hirsch, The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 4th ed (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008); Kenneth Pomerantz, The Great Divergence: Europe, China, and the Making of the Mod-ern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2000); Peter Liddel and Andrew Fear, eds., Historiae Mundi: Studies in Universal History (London: Duckworth, 2010); B.V. Rao, World History: From Early Times to AD 2000, 3rd ed. (Elgin, IL: New Dawn Press, 2006); J.M. Roberts, The New Penguin History of the World, 5 th ed. (London: Penguin, 2007); ___, A Short History of the World (New York: Oxford U. Press, 1993); ___, The New History of the World (New York: Oxford U. Press, 2003); Peter Stearns, Globalization in World History (London and New York: Routledge, 2010); Robert L. Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Stephen Aron, and Stephen Kotkin, Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World from the Beginnings of Humankind to the Present, 2nd ed (New York: W.W. Norton, 2008); Ranajit Guha, History at the Limit of World-History(New York: Columbia U. Press, 2002); Pamela Kyle Crossley, What is Global History?(Cambridge: Polity Press, 2008); Jared Diamond, Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (New York: W.W. Norton, 1997).2. See Jane Burbank and Frederick Cooper, Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2010); John Darwin, After Tamerlane: The Global History of Empire since 1945 (London: Bloomsbury, 2008); David Abernathy, The Dynamics of Global Dominance: European Overseas Empires, 1415–1980 (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 2000); Ronald Findlay and Kevin H. O’Rourke, Power and Plenty: Trade, Power, and the World Economy in the Second Millennium (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 2007).3. McNeil, A World History, 113. The author cites three sources, all published in the 1950s.4. Ibid, 275–78.5. “At this point we leave Africa, not to mention it again. For it is no historical part of the World; it has no movement or development to exhibit.” G.W.F. Hegel, The Philosophy of History, trans. J. Sibree (New York: Dover Publications, 1956), 99.6. Examples of big history include Cynthia Stokes Brown, Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present (New York: New Press, 2007); Fred Spier, The Structure of Big History (Amsterdam, Amsterdam U. Press, 1996); ___, Big History and the Fu-ture of Humanity (West Sussex, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010); Donald R. Kelley, “The Rise of Prehistory,” Journal of World History 14:1 (March 2003): 17–36; David Chris-tian, Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History (Berkeley: U. of California Press,
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Prologue 1
  5. PART I. EARLY SAHEL AND SAVANNAH
  6. CHAPTER 1. The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity and Global Context 11
  7. CHAPTER 2. Early Gao 19
  8. CHAPTER 3. The Kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River 30
  9. CHAPTER 4. Slavery and Race Imagined in Bilād As-Sūdān 43
  10. PART II. IMPERIAL MALI
  11. CHAPTER 5. The Meanings of Sunjata and the Dawn of Imperial Mali 61
  12. CHAPTER 6. Mansā Mūsā and Global Mali 92
  13. CHAPTER 7. Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa 144
  14. PART III. IMPERIAL SONGHAY
  15. CHAPTER 8. Sunni ‘Alī and the Reinvention of Songhay 169
  16. CHAPTER 9. The Sunni and the Scholars: A Tale of Revenge 193
  17. CHAPTER 10. Renaissance: The Age of Askia Al-Ḥājj Muḥammad 219
  18. CHAPTER 11. Of Clerics and Concubines 258
  19. PART IV. LE DERNIER DE L’EMPIRE
  20. CHAPTER 12. Of Fitnas and Fratricide: The Nadir of Imperial Songhay 315
  21. CHAPTER 13. Surfeit and Stability: The Era of Askia Dāwūd 334
  22. CHAPTER 14. The Rending Asunder: Dominion’s End 355
  23. EPILOGUE. A Thousand Years 369
  24. Notes 373
  25. Select Bibliography 469
  26. Index 479
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Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents v
  3. Preface vii
  4. Prologue 1
  5. PART I. EARLY SAHEL AND SAVANNAH
  6. CHAPTER 1. The Middle Niger in Pre-Antiquity and Global Context 11
  7. CHAPTER 2. Early Gao 19
  8. CHAPTER 3. The Kingdoms of Ghana: Reform along the Senegal River 30
  9. CHAPTER 4. Slavery and Race Imagined in Bilād As-Sūdān 43
  10. PART II. IMPERIAL MALI
  11. CHAPTER 5. The Meanings of Sunjata and the Dawn of Imperial Mali 61
  12. CHAPTER 6. Mansā Mūsā and Global Mali 92
  13. CHAPTER 7. Intrigue, Islam, and Ibn Baṭṭūṭa 144
  14. PART III. IMPERIAL SONGHAY
  15. CHAPTER 8. Sunni ‘Alī and the Reinvention of Songhay 169
  16. CHAPTER 9. The Sunni and the Scholars: A Tale of Revenge 193
  17. CHAPTER 10. Renaissance: The Age of Askia Al-Ḥājj Muḥammad 219
  18. CHAPTER 11. Of Clerics and Concubines 258
  19. PART IV. LE DERNIER DE L’EMPIRE
  20. CHAPTER 12. Of Fitnas and Fratricide: The Nadir of Imperial Songhay 315
  21. CHAPTER 13. Surfeit and Stability: The Era of Askia Dāwūd 334
  22. CHAPTER 14. The Rending Asunder: Dominion’s End 355
  23. EPILOGUE. A Thousand Years 369
  24. Notes 373
  25. Select Bibliography 469
  26. Index 479
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