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From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce

The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa

Robin Law editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:17th Aug '95

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Essays, from an African perspective, on the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa.

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.

"The volume nicely marks the maturation in African historiography since Hopkins first raised the question inspiring it." Historian

ISBN: 9780521481274

Dimensions: 237mm x 157mm x 24mm

Weight: 547g

292 pages