TY - BOOK AU - Gregoire,Emmanuel AU - Hardy,Benjamin H. TI - The Alhazai of Maradi: Traditional Hausa Merchants in a Changing Sahelian City SN - 9781555872786 PY - 2023///] CY - Boulder : PB - Lynne Rienner Publishers, KW - POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / African KW - bisacsh N1 - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Illustrations --; Preface to the English-Language Edition --; Translator's Acknowledgments --; Author's Acknowledgments --; Introduction --; 1 Framework of the Study: The City and Its Environment --; 2 The Precolonial Site: Politics and Economics of Maradi in the Nineteenth Century --; 3 Colonial Maradi: An Administrative Capital Becomes Involved in Trade --; 4 Dynamism and Diversity: From Regional to Global Trade --; 5 The Social Content of Maradi's Evolution --; General Conclusions --; Acronyms --; Bibliography to the English-Language Edition --; Index --; About the Book, Author, and Translator; restricted access N2 - Tracing the history of Maradi and the accession to power and prestige of the Alhazai, Gregoire provides a glimpse of social change in the making, as traditional and modern influences merge UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781685854584 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781685854584 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781685854584/original ER -