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FROM SLAVE TRADE TO 'LEGITIMATE' COMMERCE
THE COMMERCIAL TRANSITION IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY WEST AFRICA |
| By: |
Robin Law (Editor), David Anderson, Carolyn Brown |
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| ISBN 10: |
0521523060 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780521523066 |
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| Publisher: |
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
24 June, 2002 |
| Series: |
African Studies No.86 |
| Pages: |
292 |
| Description: |
Essays, from an African perspective, on the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa. |
| Synopsis: |
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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UK |
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Cambridge University Press |
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