Africa and the Gulf region : blurred boundaries and shifting ties /
The ties that bind Africa and the Gulf region have deep historical roots that influence both what Braudel called the longue durée and the short-term events of current policy shifts, market-based economic fluctuations, and global and local political vicissitudes. This book, a collaboration of histori...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Germany :
Gerlach Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Gulf Research Center book series.
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| Online Access: | Connect to this title online (unlimited users allowed) |
| Summary: | The ties that bind Africa and the Gulf region have deep historical roots that influence both what Braudel called the longue durée and the short-term events of current policy shifts, market-based economic fluctuations, and global and local political vicissitudes. This book, a collaboration of historians, political scientists, development planners, and a biomedical engineer, explores Arabian-African relationships in their many overlapping dimensions. Thus histories constructed from the "bottom up" - records of the everyday activities of commerce, intermarriage, and gender roles - offer an incisi. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (169 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9783940924711 3940924717 |