Pragmatism in the Age of Jihad
Subtitle: The Precolonial State of Bundu (African Studies)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 8, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780521528474
Subjects: African history: c 1500 to c 1900; World history; History: World; History; History - General History; Senegal; Africa - General; History / Africa; History / Renaissance
First sentence: West Africa in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries witnessed the eruption of several major "holy wars" across the wide expanse of its savannah, from the Senegal River to Lake Chad.