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The Swahili : Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 / Thomas Spear, Derek Nurse.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: The Ethnohistory SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2017]Copyright date: ©1985Description: 1 online resource (160 p.) : 17 illusContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780812212075
  • 9781512821666
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 960.0496392 23
LOC classification:
  • DT365.45.S93
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. SWAHILI AND THEIR HISTORY -- 2. THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND OF SWAHILI -- 3. THE EMERGENCE OF THE SWAHILI-SPEAKING PEOPLES -- 4. EARLY SWAHILI SOCIETY, 800-1100 -- 5. RISE OF THE SWAHILI TOWNSTATES, 1100-1500 -- APPENDIXES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index
Summary: "As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."-International Journal of African Historical Studies

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- I. SWAHILI AND THEIR HISTORY -- 2. THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND OF SWAHILI -- 3. THE EMERGENCE OF THE SWAHILI-SPEAKING PEOPLES -- 4. EARLY SWAHILI SOCIETY, 800-1100 -- 5. RISE OF THE SWAHILI TOWNSTATES, 1100-1500 -- APPENDIXES -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Index

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"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."-International Journal of African Historical Studies

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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