| From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa Revised Edition Contributor(s): Law, Robin (Editor), Anderson, David (Editor), Brown, Carolyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521523060 ISBN-13: 9780521523066 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $51.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2002 Annotation: This edited collection, written by leading specialists, deals with nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and development of alternative forms of "legitimate" trade. Approaching the subject from an African perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved, and provide new insights into the history of precolonial Africa and the slave trade, origins of European imperialism, and longer term issues of economic development in Africa. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - General - Social Science | Slavery - History | Europe - Renaissance |
| Dewey: 380.144 |
| Series: African Studies |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.94" W x 9.12" (0.99 lbs) 292 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - African |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This edited collection, written by leading specialists, deals with nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and development of alternative forms of legitimate trade. Approaching the subject from an African perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved, and provide new insights into the history of precolonial Africa and the slave trade, origins of European imperialism, and longer term issues of economic development in Africa. |