Saharan Frontiers

“Makes a compelling case for the importance of Saharan history, both in its own right and in its articulations with the histories of other regions.” — American Ethnologist The Sahara has long been portrayed as a barrier that divides the Mediterranean world from Africa proper and isolates the countries of the Maghrib from their southern and eastern neighbors. Rather than viewing the desert as an isolating barrier, this volume takes up historian Fernand Braudel’s description of the Sahara as “the