Ghislaine Lydon (University of California, Los Angeles)

Submitted: Tues, March 23, 2010


Ghislaine Lydon
Associate Professor
Department of History 
University of California-Los Angeles
6265 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, California  90095-1473  USA

phone:   310-825-4214
fax:     310-206-9630
e-mail:  Lydon@history.ucla.edu


Specializing in Western African history with a focus on business and
family history. 


Selected publications

Books

On Trans-Saharan trails : Islamic law, trade networks, and cross-cultural 
exchange in nineteenth-century Western Africa.  Cambridge; New York: 
Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Sous la direction de David Robinson et Jean-Louis Triaud ; Ghislaine 
Lydon, assistane éditoriale.  
Le temps des marabouts: itinéraires et stratégies 
islamiques en Afrique occidentale française v. 1880-1960.  
Paris: Karthala, c1997.


Journal articles

2008   "Contracting caravans: partnership and profit in nineteenth and 
early twentieth-century trans-Saharan trade,"  Journal of Global History 
March 2008, Vol. 3 Issue 1: 89-113.


2007   

"Islamic legal culture and slave-ownership contests in nineteenth-century 
Sahara," International Journal of African Historical Studies vol. 40, no. 3,
391-439.

"Droit islamique et droits de la femme d'après les registres du 
Tribunal Musulman de Ndar [Saint-Louis du Sénégal]," 
Canadian Journal of African Studies vol. 41, no. 2, 289-307.


2005   

"Writing trans-Saharan history: methods, sources and interpretations 
across the African divide," The Journal of North African Studies, Vol. 10,
Issue 3/4 September 2005: 293-324 

"Slavery, exchange, and Islamic law: a glimpse from the archives of 
Mali and Mauritania," African Economic History 2005 33: 117-148.


1997  "The unraveling of a neglected source: a report on women in Francophone 
West Africa in the 1930s," Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines 1997 37(3): 555-584.