Saharan Frontiers

Space and Mobility in Northwest Africa

By: James McDougall (Editor), Judith Scheele (Editor), Peregrine Horden (Contribution by), E. Ann McDougall (Contribution by), Katia Schoerle (Contribution by)

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Hardcover | 8 June 2012

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The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel's description of the Sahara as "the second face of the Mediterranean." The essays recast the history of the region with the Sahara at its center, uncovering a story of densely interdependent networks that span the desert's vast expanse. They explore the relationship between the desert's "islands" and "shores" and the connections and commonalities that unite the region. Contributors draw on extensive ethnographic and historical research to address topics such as trade and migration; local notions of place, territoriality, and movement; Saharan cities; and the links among ecological, regional, and world-historical approaches to understanding the Sahara.

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"This volume offers an important contribution to the regional study of the Sahara, an area that mostly falls through conceptual grids since African Studies are generally concerned with the Sub-Saharan region, and the Middle East and Arab world considers the Sahara to lie on its outer edge [...] This edited volume presents a compilation of coherent, well-structured case studies addressing highly significant issues for the contemporary Sahara. Although the case studies give priority to the western Sahara (Morocco, Mauretania) without including its eastern parts (today's Libya, Chad and Sudan), the volume still offers a groundbreaking study of the Sahara. What becomes clear throughout is that its historical and contemporary connectivity is not limited to the Sahara as a geographic, climatic or environmental entity but characterises it as a fluid extending its frontiers into its neighbouring areas and pulling them, in turn, into its economy, policies and social and cultural expressions." - Social Anthropology

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