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Making money : life, death, and early modern trade on Africa's Guinea Coast
- Title
- Making money : life, death, and early modern trade on Africa's Guinea Coast / Colleen E. Kriger.
- Author
- Kriger, Colleen E.
- Publication
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017]
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- Description
- xv, 238 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- A new era in world history began when Atlantic maritime trade among Africa, Asia, Europe, and the Americas opened up in the fifteenth century, setting the stage for massive economic and cultural change. In Making Money, Colleen Kriger examines the influence of the global trade on the Upper Guinea Coast two hundred years later-a place and time whose study, in her hands, imparts profound insights into Anglo-African commerce and its wider milieu. A stunning variety of people lived in this coastal society, struggling to work together across deep cultural divides and in the process creating a dynamic creole culture. Kriger digs further than any previous historian of Africa into the records of England's Royal African Company to illuminate global trade patterns, the interconnectedness of Asian, African, and European markets, and-most remarkably-the individual lives that give Making Money its human scale. By inviting readers into the day-to-day workings of early modern trade in the Atlantic basin, Kriger masterfully reveals the rich social relations at its core. Ultimately, this accessible book affirms Africa's crucial place in world history during a transitional period, the early modern era.
- Series Statement
- Africa in world history
- Uniform Title
- Africa in world history.
- Subject
- Royal African Company > History > 17th century
- Royal African Company
- 1600-1699
- Slave trade > Guinea (Region)
- Commerce
- Slave trade
- Guinea (Region) > Commerce > History > Great Britain > 17th century
- Great Britain > Commerce > History > Guinea (Region) > 17th century
- Guinea (Region) > History > 17th century
- Great Britain
- Guinea(Region)
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-231) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction. Atlantic lives : Anglo-African trade in northern Guinea -- Buyers and sellers in cross-cultural trade -- "Artificers" and merchants : making and moving goods -- West Africans profiting in Atlantic trade -- Company property : captives, rebels, and grometos -- Free agents and local hires : managing men in northern Guinea -- Conclusion. Anglo-African relations.
- Call Number
- Sc E 18-749
- ISBN
- 9780896803152
- 0896803155
- 9780896802964
- 0896802965
- 9780896805002 (canceled/invalid)
- 089680500X (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017036292
- OCLC
- 982091712
- Author
- Kriger, Colleen E., author.
- Title
- Making money : life, death, and early modern trade on Africa's Guinea Coast / Colleen E. Kriger.
- Publisher
- Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2017]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Africa in world historyAfrica in world history.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-231) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1600-1699
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 18-749