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Muslim interpreters in colonial Senegal, 1850-1920 : mediations of knowledge and power in the lower and middle Senegal River Valley
- Author / Creator
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Details
- Creator
- Tamba M'bayo
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (237 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781498509992, 1498509991, 1498510000, 1498509983
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Introduction: African interpreters in colonial Senegal -- Interpreter family biographies: biography as history -- Inconspicuous interpreters -- The creation of an indigenous interpreter corps in Saint Louis -- French expansion, commerce, and conquest, 1850s-1880s -- The Mauritanian challenge: "Pacification" and African mediators