Research Catalog

Credit, currencies and culture : African financial institutions in historical perspective

Title: Credit, currencies and culture : African financial institutions in historical perspective / edited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer.
Publication: Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

2 Items

Item details
Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request for On-site Use Request Scan Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schomburg Center to submit a request in person.	Text	Use in library	Sc D 01-661	Schomburg Center - Research & Reference
Request for On-site Use Request Scan How do I pick up this item and when will it be ready?	Text	Request in advance	JBE 00-1721	Offsite

Details

Additional Authors

Description

174 p.; 22 cm.

Subject

Financial institutions > Africa > History
Credit > Africa > History
Money > Africa > History
Africa > Economic conditions > To 1918

Note

Most of these papers were first presented as a seminar series, "Financial Institutions in Africa, historical and contemporary perspectives," at the Program of African Studies, Northwestern Univeristy, during the winter of 1996.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Introduction / E. Stiansen & J. Guyer -- Finance and credit in pre-colonial Dahomey / Robin Law -- On currency and credit in the western Sahel, 1700-1850 / James L.A. Webb -- Slaves as money in the Sokoto Caliphate / Jan Hogendorn -- Islamic financial institutions / John Hunwick -- Islamic banking in the Sudan / Endre Stiansen -- Imposing a guide on the indigène : the fifty year experience of the Sociétés de prévoyance in French West and Equatorial Africa / Gregory Mann & Jane I. Guyer -- Kòse-é-mánì : idealism and contradiction in the Yoruba view of money.

Call Number

JBE 00-1721

ISBN

9171064427

OCLC

44134497

Title

Credit, currencies and culture : African financial institutions in historical perspective / edited by Endre Stiansen and Jane I. Guyer.

Imprint

Uppsala, Sweden : Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, 1999.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Guyer, Jane I.

Stiansen, Endre.

Research Call Number

JBE 00-1721

Sc D 01-661

View in Legacy Catalog