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This book seeks to advance knowledge of human settlement and adaptation in the world's largest desert, the sahara. Previous studies focussed on the prehistoric phases but this study takes a wider historical and geographical perspective. It sets out to combine the results of several field campaigns, their histories and methodologies. We look at fieldwork, fortifications, funerary structures, irrigation, rock art and human occupation. The final summary looks at the current state of research and offers a platform for future investigations.
Excavations (Archaeology) --- Garamantes (African people) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Garamantes --- Antiquities. --- Antiquités --- Fezzan (Libya) --- Fezzan (Libye) --- Archäologie --- Fessan --- Archäologie. --- Fessan. --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Archaeology --- Libya --- Old Jarma --- Ancient Garama --- Central Saharan --- Oases --- Social Science / Archaeology --- Art / History / Prehistoric --- History / Africa / North --- Social sciences --- Ethnology --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Fazzan (Libya) --- Phazania (Libya) --- Behavioral sciences --- Human sciences --- Sciences, Social --- Social science --- Social studies --- Civilization --- Antiquities --- Antiquties.
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"In Slavery, Agriculture, and Malaria in the Arabian Peninsula, Benjamin Reilly illuminates a previously unstudied phenomenon: the large-scale employment of people of African ancestry as slaves in agricultural oases within the Arabian Peninsula. The key to understanding this unusual system, Reilly argues, is the prevalence of malaria within Arabian Peninsula oases and drainage basins, which rendered agricultural lands in Arabia extremely unhealthy for people without genetic or acquired resistance to malarial fevers. In this way, Arabian slave agriculture had unexpected similarities to slavery as practiced in the Caribbean and Brazil. This book synthesizes for the first time a body of historical and ethnographic data about slave-based agriculture in the Arabian Peninsula. Reilly uses an innovative methodology to analyze the limited historical record and a multidisciplinary approach to complicate our understandings of the nature of work in an area that is popularly thought of solely as desert. This work makes significant contributions both to the global literature on slavery and to the environmental history of the Middle East--an area that has thus far received little attention from scholars"--
Slavery --- Africans --- Ethnology --- Abolition of slavery --- Antislavery --- Enslavement --- Mui tsai --- Ownership of slaves --- Servitude --- Slave keeping --- Slave system --- Slaveholding --- Thralldom --- Crimes against humanity --- Serfdom --- Slaveholders --- Slaves --- History. --- Agricultural laborers --- Malaria --- Agriculture --- Oases --- Deserts --- Farming --- Husbandry --- Industrial arts --- Life sciences --- Food supply --- Land use, Rural --- Ague --- Chills and fever --- Intermittent fever --- Malarial fever --- Fever --- Protozoan diseases --- Agricultural workers --- Farm labor --- Farm laborers --- Farm workers --- Farmhands --- Farmworkers --- Employees --- Enslaved persons --- Persons --- Social aspects --- Health aspects --- Environmental aspects --- Arabian Peninsula --- Arabia --- Environmental conditions
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This open access book provides a multi-perspective approach to the caravan trade in the Sahara during the 19th century. Based on travelogues from European travelers, recently found Arab sources, historical maps and results from several expeditions, the book gives an overview of the historical periods of the caravan trade as well as detailed information about the infrastructure which was necessary to establish those trade networks. Included are a variety of unique historical and recent maps as well as remote sensing images of the important trade routes and the corresponding historic oases. To give a deeper understanding of how those trading networks work, aspects such as culturally influenced concepts of spatial orientation are discussed. The book aims to be a useful reference for the caravan trade in the Sahara, that can be recommended both to students and to specialists and researchers in the field of Geography, History and African Studies.
Africa—Economic conditions. --- Historical geography. --- Africa, North—History. --- Remote sensing. --- Ethnology—Africa. --- African Economics. --- Historical Geography. --- History of North Africa. --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry. --- African Culture. --- Remote-sensing imagery --- Remote sensing systems --- Remote terrain sensing --- Sensing, Remote --- Terrain sensing, Remote --- Aerial photogrammetry --- Aerospace telemetry --- Detectors --- Space optics --- Geography, Historical --- Geography --- African Economics --- Historical Geography --- History of North Africa --- Remote Sensing/Photogrammetry --- African Culture --- Economy-wide Country Studies --- Caravan Trading in the 19th century --- Libyan Sahara --- Central Sahara --- Open Access --- Atlas of Caravan Tracks --- Historical Maps --- Concepts of Spacial Orientation --- Trade Networks --- Caravan Routes --- 19th century Trade in the Sahara --- Trans-Saharan trails --- Historic Oases --- Economics --- Historical geography --- African history --- Geographical information systems & remote sensing --- Cultural studies
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