Derek Nurse, Thomas Spear

The Swahili

Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 8-15

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"The authors, respectively a linguist specializing in Swahili and related Bantu languages and a historian specializing in the history of East Africa, have assembled an impressive array of evidence--linguistic, archaeological, documentary, and oral-traditi

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Seitenzahl: 160
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1985
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 152mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780812212075
• ISBN-10: 081221207X
• Artikelnr.: 21296665

Autorenporträt

Derek Nurse is Professor Emeritus of Linguistics at Memorial University of Newfoundland. Thomas Spear is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Inhaltsangabe

Maps
Figures
Preface
Acknowledgments
1 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 Town-States, 1100-1500
Appendices
Abbreviations
Notes
Bibliography
Index