Illegal Caravan Trade and Outlaw Armed Escorts in the Qing Dynasty: Critical Analysis of Two 18th Century Memorials
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Caravan mobility and brigandage in Northern China (18th-20th centuries): Imperial archives, narratives and orality
Caravan mobility in late imperial Northern China is well known by historians. It is, however, relatively little studied from the point of view of brigandage. There is certainly no lack of sources containing clues about it. Numerous Qing imperial archives (1644-1911) concerning attacks by brigands on travelling groups exist, and several narratives p...
Local animal economies during the nineteenth-century caravan trade along the Lower Pangani, northeastern Tanzania: a zoo...
Le rôle du royaume nabatéen dans le commerce oriental et méditerranéen, de l’époque hellénistique aux campagnes de Traja...
L’activité caravanière qui fit la richesse et la renommée du royaume nabatéen durant les époques hellénistique et romaine nous est essentiellement connue par quelques passages extraits des œuvres de Diodore de Sicile et de Strabon. Jusqu’à récemment, considérant que la majeure partie des marchandises transportées par les Nabatéens était constituée ...
Precolonial Beja : A periphery at the crossroads
The Beja, or Bedawiye, people speaking the Northern Cushitic language called “Bedawiet”, have literally since “time immemorial” occupied the Eastern deserts of Sudan, Egypt and possibly Eritrea. They today consist of the subgroups Ababda, Bishariin, Atmaan/Amar´ar, Hadendowa and sections of the Beni Amer. These subgroups are relatively loosely inte...
Princes as Highway Men
Published in Les cahiers de médiologie
ABSTRACTThis paper examines the phenomenon of armed banditry in precolonial Borgu history. The paper considers armed banditry in Borgu as a reaction to the change from agrarianism to mercantilism in the fifteenth century. It attributes the involvement of Borgu princes in banditry to the socio-political situation in the country. The paper concludes ...
