From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780521523066)

This edited collection, written by leading specialists, deals with nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic slave trade and development of alternative forms of "legitimate" trade. Approaching the subject from an African perspective, the case studies consider the effects of transition on the African societies involved, and provide new insights into the history of precolonial Africa and the slave trade, origins of European imperialism, and longer term issues of economic development in Africa.

Author: Robin Law
ISBN-10: 0521523060
ISBN-13: 9780521523066
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/08/2002
Pages: 292
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.99lbs
Size: 9.12h x 5.94w x 0.74d