The Swahili : : Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500 / / Thomas Spear, Derek Nurse.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• VerfasserIn: Nurse, Derek,; Spear, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017]; ©1985
• 出版年: 2017
• 言語: English
• シリーズ: The Ethnohistory Series
• 物理的記述: 1 online resource (160 p.) :; 17 illus.
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; PREFACE --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; I. SWAHILI AND THEIR HISTORY --; 2. THE AFRICAN BACKGROUND OF SWAHILI --; 3. THE EMERGENCE OF THE SWAHILI-SPEAKING PEOPLES --; 4. EARLY SWAHILI SOCIETY, 800-1100 --; 5. RISE OF THE SWAHILI TOWNSTATES, 1100-1500 --; APPENDIXES --; ABBREVIATIONS --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; Index
• 要約: "As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."-International Journal of African Historical Studies
• フォーマット: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512821666; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512821666
• アクセス: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Thomas Spear, Derek Nurse.

"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."-International Journal of African Historical Studies