Title: The Swahili: Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Publication Date: 1985
Language: English
ISBN 10: 081221207X
ISBN 13: 9780812212075
Binding: Paperback / softback
Condition: New
Weight: 274 grams

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"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."—International Journal of African Historical Studies

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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.

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