M ichael A. G omez . African Dominion
A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9488951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Paulo Fernando De Moraes Farias (University of Birmingham, corresponding author), Ousmane Kane (Harvard University, corresponding author), Ghislaine Lydon (University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author), Shamil Jeppie (0000-0002-6827-1427, University of Cape Town, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 124 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 588-591 |
| Publication date | 2019-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The American Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-8762 • E-ISSN: 1937-5239 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ahr/rhz387 |
| OpenAlex | W2929116308 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
The story of the rise and fall of the Ghana, Mali, and Songhay Empires is the most commonly taught part of African history, featured as a chapter in the world history curriculum of most American high schools. The grand narrative of West Africa’s golden age is conveyed in a formulaic fashion that has remained static for decades. This is partly because serious research has been lacking since the 1970s when landmark studies were produced by the likes of Sékéné Mody Cissoko, Nehemia Levtzion, and Madina Ly-Tall, and the subsequent scholarship of John Owen Hunwick and Paulo Fernando de Moraes Farias. Lamentably, the study of Africa before the nineteenth century as a whole continues to attract too few historians. Still, a number of archaeologists have excavated key sites, and scholars have collected and mined oral traditions, typically centered on the epic of Emperor Sunjata, Mali’s heroic founder. This is one of the many reasons why the publication of Michael Gomez’s African Dominion: A New History of Empire in Early and Medieval West Africa is such an exciting moment in the field of African history. Besides, this is the first study of its kind to tackle the successive experiences of statecraft across a thousand-year period (ca. 500–1600)
African studies · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Civilization · Colonialism · Dominion · Emperor · Empire · EPIC · Ethnology · Expansionism · Fifteenth · History of Africa · Independence (probability theory) · Literature · Mamluk · Narrative · Period (music · Pilgrimage · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Prologue · Realm · Reign · Ruler · Scholarship · Sociology · Sovereignty · The Republic · Theology · African Studies and Geopolitics · Anthropology · Classics · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2020 - 2020 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |