Bert S Hall

Biographic Data

ID	447091
NAME	Bert S Hall
GIVEN NAMES	Bert S
FAMILY NAME	Hall
SIGNATURE	HALL B S
AFFILIATIONS	University of Toronto
ORCID	0000-0003-0556-211X
VERIFIED	Yes
TOTAL WORKS	62
TOTAL CITATIONS	129
AUTHOR COUNT	62
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1970
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2025
H-INDEX	5

Erin Pettigrew. Invoking the Invisible in the Sahara: Islam, Spiritual Mediation, and Social Change
Open AccessBert S Hall, Bruce HallARTICLEThe American Historical Review2025
Possessed by the Right Hand: The Problem of Slavery in Islamic Law and Muslim Cultures, by Bernard K. Freamon
Bert S HallARTICLEJournal of Global Slavery2022
Galluzzi, Paolo. The Italian Renaissance of Machines. Trans. Jonathan Mandelbaum
Bert S Hall, Bert HallARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2021
Galluzzi, Paolo. The Italian Renaissance of Machines. Trans. Jonathan Mandelbaum. An article from journal Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme (Volume 44, Number 1, Winter 2021, pp. 9-324), on Érudit
Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome by Pamela O. Long
Bert S Hall, Bert HallARTICLETechnology and Culture2021
Reviewed by: Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome by Pamela O. Long Bert Hall (bio) Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge in Late Sixteenth-Century Rome By Pamela O. Long. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2018. Pp. xi + 368. Engineering the Eternal City: Infrastructure, Topography, and the Culture of Knowledge…
Memory, Slavery and Muslim Citizenship in the post-Emancipation circum-Saharan World
Bert S Hall, Bruce S HallARTICLEL’Ouest Saharien2020Cited by: 1References: 8
Le Maroc et la Mauritanie comportent des sociétés post-émancipation où des luttes sont en cours sur les significations attribuées à la liberté et à la citoyenneté après l’esclavage. Comme dans d’autres régions limitrophes du Sahara, l’identité sociale et la situation économique des anciens esclaves et de leurs descendants sont sujets à contestation. Des idées raciales formulées dans ces contextes locaux sont courantes pour marquer les personnes a…
Rethinking the Place of Timbuktu in the Intellectual History of Muslim West Africa
Bert S Hall, Bruce S HallCHAPTERLandscapes, Sources and…2018
Timbuktu: What Call to Action
Amadou Tidiane Fofana, Bert S HallARTICLEBlack Camera2017
This article is the product of a collaboration between a scholar of West African cinema (Fofana) and a historian of northern Mali (Hall), who together offer an interpretation of the politics of Abderrahmane Sissako's film Timbuktu (2014). This film is about the Islamist jihadist occupation of the Malian town of Timbuktu in 2012–13, and it succeeds in demonstrating some of the ways that the jihadist project tried to reorganize the lives of people …
Kämpfen um Sold: Eine Alltags- und Sozialgeschichte schweizerischer Söldner in der Frühen Neuzeit
Open AccessBert S HallARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2017
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Excavating Arabic sources for the history of slavery in Western Africa
Open AccessGhislaine Lydon, Bert S Hall et al.CHAPTERAfrican Voices on Slavery and the…2016
An early twentieth-century correspondence between the French colonial administration and the trading com munity of St. Louis, expressing concern for their commercial activities, makes clear that the exchange of slaves for firearms was ongoing."Rapport do détégue du Gouverneur Général en Pays Maures (Xavier Coppolani) a Monsieur Ic Gouvemeur Génhral de I'A.O.F.sur Ia mission d'organisation du Tagant, ' lbn Abf Zayd, 224, 226, 228; Khahl devotes a …
The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe
Open AccessBert S Hall, Bert HallARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2014
David Parrott. The Business of War: Military Enterprise and Military Revolution in Early Modern Europe. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. xvii + 430 pp. $27.99. ISBN: 978-0-521-73558-2. - Volume 67 Issue 2
Saharan Commerce and Islamic Law: The Question of Usury ( ribā ) in the Nawāzil Literature of Mali And Mauritania, 1700-1929
Bert S Hall, Bruce S HallARTICLEAfrican Economic History2013
From the earliest days of the formation of Islamic law, commerce with sub-Saharan Africa—the land of the blacks—was deemed an undesirable undertaking from a moral point of view. For example, in his foundational Maliki textbook known simply as the Risāla, the tenth-century North African scholar
Arguing sovereignty in Songhay
Open AccessBert S HallARTICLEAfriques2013Cited by: 1References: 22
Recent archaeological, historical, and anthropological literature on the development of social and political complexity in Africa challenges older models of state formation that used to shape the understanding of medieval Sahelian empires, such as Songhay. As we now know, there were multiple paths to complexity that did not necessarily lead to state formation; and there was a heterarchical distribution of power in many African political formation…
One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: A multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali
Open AccessBaz Lecocq, George Mann et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2013Cited by: 58References: 2
This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis to the current (2012) political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'état against the incumbent President Touré, and finallly a political stalemate of great…
The Arabic Letters of Ghadames Slaves in the Niger Bend, 1860–1900
Open AccessBert S Hall, Bruce S Hall et al.CHAPTERAfrican Voices on Slavery and the…2012
A History of Race in Muslim West Africa, 1600–1960
Open AccessBert S Hall, Bruce S HallBOOKHistory of Race in Muslim West…2011
The mobilization of local ideas about racial difference has been important in generating, and intensifying, civil wars that have occurred since the end of colonial rule in all of the countries that straddle the southern edge of the Sahara Desert. From Sudan to Mauritania, the racial categories deployed in contemporary conflicts often hearken back to an older history in which blackness could be equated with slavery and non-blackness with predatory…
How Slaves Used Islam: The Letters of Enslaved Muslim Commercial Agents in the Nineteenth-Century Niger Bend and Central Sahara
Open AccessBert S Hall, Bruce S HallARTICLEThe Journal of African History2011Cited by: 15References: 37
Historians of slavery in Africa have long struggled to recover the voices of enslaved people. In this article, an unusual set of sources found in Timbuktu (Mali) reveals the existence of a stratum of literate, Muslim slaves who wrote and received letters written in Arabic. These letters make it possible to probe the Islamic rhetoric used by Muslim slaves and ask how enslaved people who adopted Islam understood their faith. Did Muslim slaves arriv…
Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise
Open AccessBert S HallARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2010
Camillo Agrippa. Fencing: A Renaissance Treatise. Ed., Kenneth C. Mondschein. New York: Italica Press, 2009. xciv + 138 pp. index. append. gloss. bibl. $20. ISBN: 978–1–59910–129–3. - Volume 63 Issue 2
The question of 'race' in the pre-colonial southern Sahara
Bert S Hall, Bruce S HallARTICLEThe Journal of North African…2005Cited by: 16
One of the principle issues that divide people in the southern margins of the Sahara Desert is the issue of 'race.' Each of the countries that share this region, from Mauritania to Sudan, has experienced civil violence with racial overtones since achieving independence from colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s. Today's crisis in Western Sudan is only the latest example. However, very little academic attention has been paid to the issue of 'race' …
War and Competition between States
Open AccessBert S Hall, Bert HallARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2003
Philippe Contamine, ed. War and Competition between States. (The Origins of the Modern State in Europe, 13th to 18th Centuries, 7.) Oxford: The Clarendon Press, 2000. xii + 347 pp. index, illus. bibl. $74. ISBN: 0-19-820214-8. - Volume 56 Issue 2
Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History , by Alfred W. Crosby
Open AccessBert S Hall, Bert HallARTICLEJournal of History2003
"Throwing Fire: Projectile Technology Through History, by Alfred W. Crosby." Canadian Journal of History, 38(2), pp. 367–368
Theatre of Fire: Special Effects in the Early English and Scottish Theatre (review)
Bert S HallARTICLETechnology and Culture2001
In February 1613, the Master Gunner of England entertained King James and the royal party with "many skilful and ingenious arrangements with great bumbards, shooting up many artificial balls of fire into the ayre [which fell into] many diverse streams like rainebowes." There followed a masque in which "Lady Lucida, queen of the man-hating Amazones" was pursued and captured by the love-struck "Mango the Tartarian Magician." Lucida was later rescue…
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
Bert S Hall, Bert HallBOOKWeapons and warfare in…2001Cited by: 27
Siege Warfare: The Fortress in the Early Modern World, 1494-1660
Bert S Hall, Bert HallARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1998
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
David Potter, Bert S HallARTICLEThe American Historical Review1998
Paths of Fire: An Anthropologist’s Inquiry into Western Technology , by Robert McCormick Adams
Open AccessBert S Hall, Bert HallARTICLEJournal of History1998

One hippopotamus and eight blind analysts: A multivocal analysis of the 2012 political crisis in the divided Republic of Mali
Open AccessBaz Lecocq, George Mann et al.ARTICLEReview of African Political Economy2013Cited by: 58References: 2
This is an exercise in contemporary history that aims to give a comprehensive background and analysis to the current (2012) political crisis in Mali, generated by the start of a new Tuareg nationalist uprising against the state, complemented by a coordinated attack on the state by both international (AQIM) and local Jihadi-Salafi movements, leading to a coup d'état against the incumbent President Touré, and finallly a political stalemate of great…
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
Bert S Hall, Bert HallBOOKWeapons and warfare in…2001Cited by: 27
The question of 'race' in the pre-colonial southern Sahara
Bert S Hall, Bruce S HallARTICLEThe Journal of North African…2005Cited by: 16
One of the principle issues that divide people in the southern margins of the Sahara Desert is the issue of 'race.' Each of the countries that share this region, from Mauritania to Sudan, has experienced civil violence with racial overtones since achieving independence from colonial rule in the 1950s and 1960s. Today's crisis in Western Sudan is only the latest example. However, very little academic attention has been paid to the issue of 'race' …
How Slaves Used Islam: The Letters of Enslaved Muslim Commercial Agents in the Nineteenth-Century Niger Bend and Central Sahara
Open AccessBert S Hall, Bruce S HallARTICLEThe Journal of African History2011Cited by: 15References: 37
Historians of slavery in Africa have long struggled to recover the voices of enslaved people. In this article, an unusual set of sources found in Timbuktu (Mali) reveals the existence of a stratum of literate, Muslim slaves who wrote and received letters written in Arabic. These letters make it possible to probe the Islamic rhetoric used by Muslim slaves and ask how enslaved people who adopted Islam understood their faith. Did Muslim slaves arriv…
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe: Gunpowder, Technology, and Tactics
Derek Croxton, Bert S HallARTICLEThe Journal of Military History1998Cited by: 5
Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe explores the history of in Europe from the thirteenth century, when it was first imported from China, to the sixteenth century, as firearms became central to the conduct of war. Bridging the fields of military history and the history of technology -- and challenging past assumptions about Europe's gunpowder revolution -- Hall discovers a complex and fascinating story. Military inventors faced a host of ch…
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800
Bert S Hall, Kelly R Devries et al.ARTICLETechnology and Culture1990Cited by: 2
Memory, Slavery and Muslim Citizenship in the post-Emancipation circum-Saharan World
Bert S Hall, Bruce S HallARTICLEL’Ouest Saharien2020Cited by: 1References: 8
Le Maroc et la Mauritanie comportent des sociétés post-émancipation où des luttes sont en cours sur les significations attribuées à la liberté et à la citoyenneté après l’esclavage. Comme dans d’autres régions limitrophes du Sahara, l’identité sociale et la situation économique des anciens esclaves et de leurs descendants sont sujets à contestation. Des idées raciales formulées dans ces contextes locaux sont courantes pour marquer les personnes a…
Arguing sovereignty in Songhay
Open AccessBert S HallARTICLEAfriques2013Cited by: 1References: 22
Recent archaeological, historical, and anthropological literature on the development of social and political complexity in Africa challenges older models of state formation that used to shape the understanding of medieval Sahelian empires, such as Songhay. As we now know, there were multiple paths to complexity that did not necessarily lead to state formation; and there was a heterarchical distribution of power in many African political formation…
The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500-1800 by Geoffrey Parker
Bert S Hall, Kelly R Devries et al.BOOKTechnology and Culture1990Cited by: 1
Essay Review—the "Military Revolution" Revisited The Military Revolution: Military Innovation and the Rise of the West, 1500—1800. By Geoffrey Parker. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988. Pp. xvii + 234; illustrations, notes, index. $29.95 (cloth); $14.95 (paper). Geoffrey Parker, whose 1972 study, The Army of Flanders and the Spanish Road, established him as one of the leading Renaissance military historians, has written a sweeping work o…
Leonardo da Vinci: "Engineer and Architect," an Exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Bert S HallARTICLETechnology and Culture1988Cited by: 1
Major exhibits often mark turning points in public consciousness. The Armory Show of 1913 marks the public acceptance of modern art in America, while within living memory the Treasures of Tutankhamun show manifested the surprising popularity of ancient Egypt. With da Vinci: Engineer and Architect, which ran from May 22 until November 8, 1987, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA) gave public expression to a new view of the Florentine Master, em…
Eloge: Lynn White, Jr., 29 April 1907-30 March 1987
Bert S HallARTICLEIsis1988Cited by: 1
A Revolving Bookcase by Agostino Ramelli
Bert S Hall, Agostino RamelliARTICLETechnology and Culture1970Cited by: 1
The Cover Design A REVOLVING BOOKCASE BY AGOST1NO RAMELL1 BERT S. HALL The cover illustration on this issue of Technology and Culture is taken from Agostino Ramelli’s Le diverse et artificióse machine (Paris, 1588), figure 188. It shows a revolving bookcase by means of which a reader can peruse a number of volumes without having to leave his seat. The machine resembles a small-scale Ferris wheel, but in place of seats it has shelves for books whi…