Slaves, Palm Oil and Political Power on the West African Coast
Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher :
Page : 20 pages
File Size : 35,60 MB
Release : 1967
Category : Africa, West
ISBN :
Author : David Brion Davis
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1988
Category : History
ISBN : 0195056396
This classic Pulitzer Prize-winning book depicts the various ways the Old and the New Worlds responded to the intrinsic contradictions of slavery from antiquity to the early 1770s, and considers the religious, literary, and philosophical justifications and condemnations current in the abolition controversy.
Author : G. I. Jones
Publisher :
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 19,92 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Author : J. Cameron Monroe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 39,58 MB
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1107040183
This volume examines political life in the Kingdom of Dahomey, located in the Republic of Bénin.
Author : Martin Lynn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 26,19 MB
Release : 2002-05-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521893268
An authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade.
Author : Robin Law
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 2002-08-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780521523066
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.
Author : Sean Stilwell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 48,65 MB
Release : 2014-06-02
Category : History
ISBN : 1139952161
This book is a comprehensive history of slavery in Africa from the earliest times to the end of the twentieth century, when slavery in most parts of the continent ceased to exist. It connects the emergence and consolidation of slavery to specific historical forces both internal and external to the African continent. Sean Stilwell pays special attention to the development of settled agriculture, the invention of kinship, 'big men' and centralized states, the role of African economic production and exchange, the interaction of local structures of dependence with the external slave trades (transatlantic, trans-Saharan, Indian Ocean), and the impact of colonialism on slavery in the twentieth century. He also provides an introduction to the central debates that have shaped current understanding of slavery in Africa. The book examines different forms of slavery that developed over time in Africa and introduces readers to the lives, work, and struggles of slaves themselves.
Author : Jarvis L. Hargrove
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 16,76 MB
Release : 2015-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0739187864
This book analyzes the Gold Coast and the Asante kingdom in the years following the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade and prior to the start of colonial rule. The Asante state, one of the largest in the Gold Coast and West Africa after the eighteenth century is the central focus of this work. Studying their transition from a large scale supplier of captives to the transatlantic slave trade to traders in legitimate goods is a critical component that should be analyzed across West Africa. This work highlights the political and economic relationships between the interior Asante state with surrounding African groups and Europeans, chiefly British traders who entered the region in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Author : A. G. Hopkins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 36,87 MB
Release : 2019-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 042968312X
This pioneering and celebrated work was the first, and remains the standard, account of the economic history of the huge area conventionally known as West Africa. The book ranges from prehistoric times to independence and covers the former French territories, as well as those colonised by the British. It criticises conventional beliefs about economic backwardness, offers an alternative account that explains the particular configuration of poverty that characterised the pre-colonial period, and assesses the consequences of the region’s interaction with the wider world – from the growth of the Saharan and Atlantic trades to the rise and demise of colonial rule. This edition contains a substantial new Introduction that discusses the development of the subject during the past 50 years, evaluates the debate over the original interpretation, and provides a valuable guide to additional reading, bringing the reader up to date with current scholarship on the subject, as well as providing avenues for further independent research. Appearing at a time when the study of African economic history is enjoying a revival and is engaging economists as well as historians, the book fills a large gap in African studies, provides newcomers with a stimulating point of entry into the subject, and contributes to our understanding of wider issues of global underdevelopment.
Author : Jeffrey Ahlman
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 14,83 MB
Release : 2023-10-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0755601580
Few African countries have attracted the international attention that Ghana has. In the late-nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the then-colonial Gold Coast emerged as a key political and intellectual hub for British West Africa. Half a century later, when Ghana became the first sub-Saharan state to emerge from European colonial rule, it became a key site for a burgeoning, transnational, African anticolonial politics that drew activists, freedom fighters, and intellectuals from around the world. As the twentieth century came to a close, Ghana also became an international symbol of the putative successes of post-Cold-War African liberalization and democratization projects. Here Jeffrey Ahlman narrates this rich political history stretching from the beginnings of the very idea of the "Gold Coast" to the country's 1992 democratization, which paved the way for the Fourth Republic. At the same time, he offers a rich social history stretching that examines the sometimes overlapping, sometimes divergent nature of what it means to be Ghanaian through discussions of marriage, ethnicity, and migration; of cocoa as a cultural system; of the multiple meanings of chieftaincy; and of other contemporary markers of identity. Throughout it all, Ahlman distills decades of work by other scholars while also drawing on a wide array of archival, oral, journalistic, and governmental sources in order to provide his own fresh insights. For its clear, comprehensive coverage not only of Ghanaian history, but also of the major debates shaping nineteenth- and twentieth-century African politics and society more broadly, Ghana: A Political and Social History is a must-read for students and scholars of African Studies.