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All that Glimmers is not … Salt? - Salt of the Desert Sun: A History of Salt Production and Trade in the Central Sudan. By Paul E. Lovejoy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986. Pp. xvi + 351. £27.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Dennis D. Cordell
Affiliation:
Southern Methodist University, Dallas

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1 E. A. McDougall is presently completing a book on the salt industry in the Sahara, Western and Sudan, , based on her Ph.D. dissertation: ‘The Ijil salt industry: its role in the pre-colonial economy of the western Sudan’, University of Birmingham, 1976.Google Scholar

2 See, for example, Mahadi, Abdullahi and Inikori, J. E., ‘Population and capitalist development in precolonial West Africa: Kasar Kano in the nineteenth century’, in Cordell, Dennis D. and Gregory, Joel W. (eds), African Population and Capitalism: Historical Perspectives (Boulder and London, 1987), 6273.Google Scholar