In this study of salt production and trade, Professor Lovejoy examines the interaction between ecology, technology and social structure as a means of analysing the organisation of the salt industry of the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno. By concentrating on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Lovejoy is able to establish a base-line from which to interpret earlier changes in the salt trade and thereby assess the impact of politics and economy on the history of the trade. By the end of the nineteenth century, production depended upon a combination of slavery, free migrant peasants, and workers from the haddad artisan caste. A complex marketing network serviced the various salines, although this network was intimately connected with the distribution of other commodities, especially textiles, grain and livestock. An examination of this marketing system reveals patterns of immigration and social advancement that are important in understanding the social history of the central Sudan.
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In this study of salt production and trade, Professor Lovejoy examines the interaction between ecology, technology and social structure as a means of analysing the organisation of the salt industry of the Sokoto Caliphate and Borno in central Sudan.
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Salt satisfies a physiological need, and it may well be that salt is also man's earliest addiction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
natron trade, sur les salines, trona production, central emirates, white natron, red natron, kola merchants, local salt production, ethnic fractions, kola traders, mai gida, sur une tournée, trona deposits, salt districts, decantation basins, furnace master, salt workers, desert salines, important salines, brine springs, salt industry, labour mobilisation, salt trade, pure sodium chloride, junior kin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lake Chad, Dallol Fogha, Sokoto Caliphate, Dallol Bosso, Birni Ngazargamu, Kambarin Beriberi, Kel Ewey, Air Massif, North Africa, Baga Seyoram, Kel Gress, Niger River, Nigerian National Archives, Great Drought, West Africa, Awlad Sulayman, Benue River, Kano Emirate, Archives Nationales du Niger, Birnin Debe, Guinea Coast, Komodugu Yo River, Zangon Beriberi, Dallol Maouri, Jos Plateau New!
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Salt satisfies a physiological need, and it may well be that salt is also man's earliest addiction. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
natron trade, sur les salines, trona production, central emirates, white natron, red natron, kola merchants, local salt production, ethnic fractions, kola traders, mai gida, sur une tournée, trona deposits, salt districts, decantation basins, furnace master, salt workers, desert salines, important salines, brine springs, salt industry, labour mobilisation, salt trade, pure sodium chloride, junior kin Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Lake Chad, Dallol Fogha, Sokoto Caliphate, Dallol Bosso, Birni Ngazargamu, Kambarin Beriberi, Kel Ewey, Air Massif, North Africa, Baga Seyoram, Kel Gress, Niger River, Nigerian National Archives, Great Drought, West Africa, Awlad Sulayman, Benue River, Kano Emirate, Archives Nationales du Niger, Birnin Debe, Guinea Coast, Komodugu Yo River, Zangon Beriberi, Dallol Maouri, Jos Plateau New!
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- History of West Africa, Vol. 1 by J. F. Ade Ajayi in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- From Tribe to Nation In Africa by Ronald Cohen in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Sahara and Sudan: Chad Basin and Bagirmi v.3 (Vol 3) by Gustav Nachtigal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Studies in the History of Plateau State, Nigeria by Elizabeth Isichei in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Enslaving Spirits: The Portuguese-Brazilian Alcohol Trade at Luanda and Its Hinterland, C. 1550-1830 (The Atlantic World, 2) by Jose C. Curto in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Sucking Salt: Caribbean Women Writers, Migration, and Survival by Meredith M. Gadsby on page 49, and Back Matter
- Slavery and African Life: Occidental, Oriental, and African Slave Trades (African Studies) by Patrick Manning in Back Matter
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