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Title

The changing worlds of Atlantic Africa : essays in honor of Robin Law / edited by Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs.

Publication

Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2009.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Law, Robin.
• Falola, Toyin
• Childs, Matt D., 1970-

Description

xv, 513 p. : ill., maps; 26 cm.

Subject

• Slave trade > Africa, West > History
• African diaspora > History
• Africa, West > History
• Africa, West > Historiography

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction: Robin Law and African Historiography / Matt D Childs and Toyin Falola -- PART 1: EMPIRES, POLITICS, AND POWER -- 1. Empires and Their Hinterlands: the Case of Oyo and Northern Yoruba / Aribidesi Usman -- 2. The Economic Significance of Inland Coastal Fishing in Seventeenth Century Lagos / Sandra T. Barnes -- 3. Trade and Polity in East Africa: Re-examining Elite Strategies for Acquiring Power / Chapurukha M. Kusimba and Rahul C. Oka -- 4. The Lessons of the Rawlinson Correspondence / David Henige -- 5. The Rumor of the Human Sacrifice of Two Hundred Girls by Asantehene [King] Mensa Bonsu in 1881-82 and its Consequent Colonial Policy Implications and African Responses / Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry -- 6. Colonial Environment Policies, Subsistence Strategies and Regional Politics in the Middle Senegal Valley / Alioune Deme
• PART 2: COMMERCIAL TRANSITIONS IN WEST AFRICA -- 7. The State As Help Or Hindrance To Market-led Economic Growth: West Africa In The Era Of 'Legitimate Commerce' / Gareth Austin -- 8. The Economic Impact of the 1807 British Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade / Joseph E. Inikori -- 9. British Abolitionist Policy on the Ground in West Africa in the Mid-Nineteenth Century / Silke Strickrodt -- 10. A Lagos Merchant and his Money: I. B. Williams, 1846-1925 / A. G. Hopkins
• PART 3: SLAVERY AND THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE -- 11. From a Port of the Slave Trade to an Urban Community: Robin Law and the History of Ouidah / Elisee Soumonni -- 12. From "Constitutional" and "Northern" Factors to Ethnic/Slave Uprising: Ile-Ife, 1800-1854 / Olatunji Ojo -- 13. Transatlantic Slave Trade and Endogenous Technological Backwardness in the Bight of Benin Region : An Archaeological Consideration / Obare Bagodo -- 14. In the Chains of the Past: The Trans-Atlantic slave trade in Ghanaian Historiography / Ella Keren -- 15. From Obscurity to Notoriety: Cuban Slave Merchants, and the Atlantic World / Jose Guadalupe Ortega
• PART 4: ATLANTIC IDENTITIES: WEST AFRICAN AND THE DIASPORA -- 16. The Kings of Dahomey and the Invention of Ancestral Asen Identity / Edna G. Bay -- 17. The Hula "problem": ethnicity in the pre-colonial Slave Coast / Luis Nicolau Pares -- 18. Diasporan Voices of the African Past: James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Quobna Ottobah Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano And Ignatius Sancho As Sources of African History / Maurice Jackson -- 19. Speculations on the African Background of Venture Smith / Paul E. Lovejoy -- 20. Domingos Pereira Sodre, A Nago Priest in Nineteenth-century Bahia / Joao Jose Reis -- PART 5: WEST AFRICA AND THE CHALLENGES OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 21. Mules or couriers: the role of Nigerian drug couriers in the international drug trade / Axel Klein -- 22. Shell-BP and the Nigerian Civil War / Phia Steyn -- 23. Asante, Apagyafie and President Kufuor of Ghana: A Historical Interpretation / T.C. McCaskie -- 24. After Slavery, what next? Productive relations in early twentieth century Krepe, and beyond / Lynne Brydon

ISBN

• 9781594605949 (alk. paper)
• 1594605947 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008037002

OCLC

• 244660686
• SCSB-11124333

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library