Author: Margaret Priestley
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
West African Trade and Coast Society
Author: Margaret Priestley
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: London : Oxford University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
An Economic History of West Africa
Author: A. G. Hopkins
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317868935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This is the standard account of the economic history of the vast area conventionally known as West Africa. Ranging from prehistoric time to independence it covers the former French as well as British colonies.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317868935
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
This is the standard account of the economic history of the vast area conventionally known as West Africa. Ranging from prehistoric time to independence it covers the former French as well as British colonies.
The Slave Coast of West Africa, 1550-1750
Author: Robin Law
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book studies the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the 'Slave Coast' of West Africa, an area covering modern south-eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, and south-western Nigeria. This region was one of the most important sources of slaves for the Atlantic slave trade, and its history providesan exceptionally well-documented illustration of the effect of the trade on the indigenous African societies involved in it. The expansion of slave exports during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries coincided with a period of political disorder, which ended with the rise of the newkingdom of Dahomey. Dahomey was a more militarized and more politically centralized state than those which preceded it in the region, and its distinctive character reflected the impact of the slave trade. This is the first detailed study of the early history of the Slave Coast for over twenty years. Robin Law examines the events which preceded the rise of Dahomey, the organization of the slave trade and its impact on the domestic economy, and the social and political structures of Dahomey and itspredecessors. This is a meticulously researched, lucid, and scholarly analysis which makes an important contribution to the history of both early modern European expansion and pre-colonial West Africa.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
This book studies the impact of the Atlantic slave trade on the 'Slave Coast' of West Africa, an area covering modern south-eastern Ghana, Togo, Benin, and south-western Nigeria. This region was one of the most important sources of slaves for the Atlantic slave trade, and its history providesan exceptionally well-documented illustration of the effect of the trade on the indigenous African societies involved in it. The expansion of slave exports during the seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries coincided with a period of political disorder, which ended with the rise of the newkingdom of Dahomey. Dahomey was a more militarized and more politically centralized state than those which preceded it in the region, and its distinctive character reflected the impact of the slave trade. This is the first detailed study of the early history of the Slave Coast for over twenty years. Robin Law examines the events which preceded the rise of Dahomey, the organization of the slave trade and its impact on the domestic economy, and the social and political structures of Dahomey and itspredecessors. This is a meticulously researched, lucid, and scholarly analysis which makes an important contribution to the history of both early modern European expansion and pre-colonial West Africa.
Labour and Living Standards in Pre-Colonial West Africa
Author: Klas Rönnbäck
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317222156
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317222156
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 335
Book Description
Sub-Saharan Africa is the poorest region in the world. But its current status has skewed our understanding of the economy before colonization. Rönnbäck reconstructs the living standards of the population at a time when the Atlantic slave trade brought money and men into the area, enriching our understanding of West African economic development.
The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300–1589
Author: Toby Green
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139503588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity and the re-organization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable and the consequences in Africa and beyond.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139503588
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current quantitative approaches to the history of the slave trade. New data on slave origins can show how and why Western African societies responded to Atlantic pressures. Green argues that answering these questions requires a cultural framework and uses the idea of creolization - the formation of mixed cultural communities in the era of plantation societies - to argue that preceding social patterns in both Africa and Europe were crucial. Major impacts of the sixteenth-century slave trade included political fragmentation, changes in identity and the re-organization of ritual and social patterns. The book shows which peoples were enslaved, why they were vulnerable and the consequences in Africa and beyond.
A New World of Labor
Author: Simon P. Newman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245199
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812245199
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
By 1650, Barbados had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center of an exchange of people and goods between the British Isles, the Gold Coast of West Africa, and the the New World. Simon P. Newman argues that this exchange stimulated an entirely new system of bound labor.
The Case of Our West-African Cruisers and West-African Settlements Fairly Considered
Author: George Smith (bp. of Victoria)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Christianity
Languages : en
Pages : 82
Book Description
West Africa and the Atlantic Slave-trade
Author: Walter Rodney
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slave-trade
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Slave-trade
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
The Case of Our West-African Cruizers and West-African Settlements Fairly Considered
Author: George SMITH (Minister of Trinity Chapel, Poplar.)
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 86
Book Description
Africans and Europeans in West Africa
Author: Harvey M. Feinberg
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871697974
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Publisher: American Philosophical Society
ISBN: 9780871697974
Category : Africa, West
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description