Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850

by James L.A. Webb Jr.

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Desert Frontier is a study of the ecological and economic impact of a long-term trend toward increasing aridity along the southern edge of the western Sahara. Beginning in the early seventeenth century, this climatological trend forced the desert approximately 200-300 kilometers to the south, transforming ethnic identities and ways of life along the length of the Sahel. Based on extensive archival research and on Saharan oral data, Desert...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0299143341

ISBN13:9780299143343

Release Date:December 1994

Publisher:University of Wisconsin Press

Length:208 Pages

Weight:1.63 lbs.

Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"

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17th Century Africa Biological Sciences Business Business & Investing Ecology Economic Conditions Economic History Economics Engineering Environment Environmental Economics History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Nature Popular Economics Science & Math

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