{"product_id":"eurafricans-in-western-africa-george-e-brooks-9780821414866","title":"Eurafricans in Western Africa: Commerce, Social Status, Gender, and Religious Observance from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEurafricans in Western Africa\u003c\/i\u003e traces the rich social and commercial history of western Africa. The most comprehensive study to date, it begins prior to the sixteenth century when huge profits made by middlemen on trade in North African slaves, salt, gold, pepper, and numerous other commodities prompted Portuguese reconnaissance voyages along the coast of western Africa. From Senegal to Sierra Leone, Portuguese, including \"New Christians\" who reverted to Judaism while living in western Africa, thrived where riverine and caravan networks linked many African groups.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePortuguese and their Luso-African descendants contended with French, Dutch, and English rivals for trade in gold, ivory, slaves, cotton textiles, iron bars, cowhides, and other African products. As the Atlantic slave trade increased, French and Franco-Africans and English and Anglo-Africans supplanted Portuguese and Luso-Africans in many African places of trade.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEurafricans in Western Africa\u003c\/i\u003e follows the changes that took root in the eighteenth century when French and British colonial officials introduced European legal codes, and concludes with the onset of the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars, when suppression of the slave trade and expanding commerce in forest and agricultural commodities again transformed circumstances in western Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProfessor George E. Brooks's outstanding history of these vital aspects of western Africa is enriched by his discussion of the roles of the women who married or cohabited with European traders. Through accounts of incidents and personal histories, which are integrated into the narrative, the lives of these women and their children are accorded a prominent place in Professor Brooks's fascinating discussion of this dynamic region of Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George E. Brooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0821414860\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780821414866\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Ohio University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/15\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.17lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.16h x 6.38w x 0.96d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2004 pg. 1133","brand":"George E. Brooks","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":49096759738623,"sku":"9780821414866","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/eurafricans-in-western-africa-george-e-brooks-9780821414866","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}