From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa

Robin Law (Curatore)

Cambridge University Press, 2002

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.

• Curatore: Robin Law
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: African Studies
• Anno: 2002
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 292 p.
• Dimensioni: 232 x 151 mm
• Peso: 450 gr.
• EAN: 9780521523066

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