From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa: 86 (African Studies, Series Number 86) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 0521523060 ISBN 13: 9780521523066

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 1998

Inhaltsangabe

This collection of essays deals with the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved.

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"The volume nicely marks the maturation in African historiography since Hopkins first raised the question inspiring it." Historian

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This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and the development of alternative forms of 'legitimate' trade, mainly in vegetable products. Approaching the subject from an African, rather than a European or American, perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved. They offer significant insights into the history of pre-colonial Africa and the slave trade, the origins of European imperialism, and longer-term issues of economic development in Africa.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0521523060
• ISBN 13: 9780521523066
• Einband: Paperback
• Anzahl der Seiten: 292
• Herausgeber: Law Robin