Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 by Thornton, John K.

Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781857283921)

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Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 by Thornton, John K.

Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800

$200.00
Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 by Thornton, John K.

Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800

$200.00
Format: Hardcover
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Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires.
It includes the discussion of:
: * the relationship between war and the slave trade
* the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies
* the influence of climatic and ecological factors on warfare patterns and dynamics
* the impact of social organization and military technology, including the gunpowder revolution
* case studies of warfare in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Benin and West Central Africa

Author: John K. Thornton
ISBN-10: 1857283929
ISBN-13: 9781857283921
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/26/1999
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d
By John K. Thornton
By John K. Thornton
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John K. Thornton is Professor of History at Millersville University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Cambridge, 1998).

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