Jihad in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions

by Paul E. Lovejoy

Book Overview

In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihād movement in the context of the age of revolutions-commonly associated with the American and French revolutions and the erosion of European imperialist...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821422413
• ISBN13: 9780821422410
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"