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Desert Frontier

Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850

By: James L.A. Jr. Webb

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Paperback | 30 December 1994

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Desert Frontier is a study of the ecological and economic impact of a long-term trend toward increasing aridity along the southern edge of the western Sahara. Beginning in the early seventeenth century, this climatological trend forced the desert approximately 200–300 kilometers to the south, transforming ethnic identities and ways of life along the length of the Sahel. Based on extensive archival research and on Saharan oral data, Desert Frontier argues that the principal historical dynamics of the precolonial Sahel were determined by this pervasive ecological crisis, rather than by the dynamics of a European-dominated world system.

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Non-Fiction Earth Sciences, Geography, Environment, Planning Geography Human Geography Economic Geography Earth Sciences Meteorology & Climatology The Environment Applied Ecology Society & Culture Social Groups Ethnic Studies

Environmental Management Economics History Regional & National History African History

Illustrations
Figure and Maps
Tables
Preface
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Note on Orthography and Terminology
Ecological Change and the Emergence of the Desert Frontier, 1600-1850	p. 3
The Southwestern Frontier	p. 27
The Southeastern Frontier	p. 47
The Horse and Slave Trade	p. 68
The Trade in Gum Arabic	p. 97
Conclusion	p. 132
Notes	p. 139
References	p. 186
Index	p. 214
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