Desert Frontier: Ecological and Economic Change Along the Western Sahel, 1600-1850

by James L.A. Webb Jr.

Book Overview

Desert Frontier is a study of the ecological and economic impact of a long-term trend toward increasing aridity along the southern edge of the western Sahara. Beginning in the early seventeenth century, this climatological trend forced the desert approximately 200-300 kilometers to the south, transforming ethnic identities and ways of life along the length of the Sahel. Based on extensive archival research and on Saharan oral data, Desert...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299143341
• ISBN13: 9780299143343
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"