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Terms of trade and terms of trust : the history and contexts of pre-colonial market production around the Upper Zambezi and Kasai
- Title
- Terms of trade and terms of trust : the history and contexts of pre-colonial market production around the Upper Zambezi and Kasai / Achim von Oppen.
- Author
- Oppen, Achim von.
- Publication
- Münster : LIT Verlag, [1993?]
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- Description
- viii, 473 pages : illustrations, maps; 21 cm.
- Series Statement
- Studien zur afrikanischen Geschichte ; Bd. 6
- Uniform Title
- Studien zur afrikanischen Geschichte ; Bd. 6.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 441-469).
- Contents
- Pt. A. Introduction. A 1. Opening the lens: Views of an 'end of the world'. A 2. Choosing a perspective: Origins of peasants and markets in Africa. A 3. Processing the material: Disparate snapshots and their synthesis -- Pt. B. Entering the Atlantic World. B 1. Gates between coast and interior (before c.1800). B 2. The climax and end of slave exports (c.1800-1850). B 3. Ivory, beeswax and new patterns of trade (c.1840-80). B 4. The 'Rubber Delirium' (c.1880-1910). B 5. By the roadside: Services for travellers -- B 6. Conclusion Part B: A chronology of market integration -- Pt. C. The Regional Economy: Expanding Production and Local Needs. C 1. A prehistory of indigenous productive innovation. C 2. Population and ecology - a changing balance. C 3. Emerging divisions of labour. C 4. The means of export production. C 5. Adaptations in the regional food economy. C 6. Use-values and currencies: the utility of imported goods -- C 7. Conclusion Part C: 'Subsistence' and 'surplus'.
- Pt. D. The Social Context: Labour, Power and Exchange. D 1. 'Owners' and 'villagers'. D 2. Sisters and wives. D 3. Children and slaves. D 4. 'Strangers', neighbours and 'friends': the importance of non-kinship relations. D 5. Chieftainship and trade. D 6. Conclusion Part D: 'Equity with growth'? -- Pt. E. Negotiating the Market: Resident Producers and Foreign Traders. E 1. 'Extortions, exactions and vexations'. E 2. Business and trust. E 3. The right price -- E 4. Conclusion Part E: Changing moralities of exchange -- Pt. F. Epilogue -- Appendix and References: Synopsis of travellers' reports on the Upper Zambezi and Kasai, 1794-1907.
- ISBN
- 3894732466
- LCCN
- 93196944
- OCLC
- 30746851
- ocm30746851
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries