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A fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution Toby Green.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: London Allen Lane an imprint of Penguin Books 2019Description: pages cmISBN:
  • 9780226644578 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • DT 476 GRE 23
LOC classification:
  • DT476 .G74 2019
Contents:
Part one: Causes: economic divergence in West and West-Central Africa. "Three measures of gold": the rise and fall of the great empires of the Sahel -- Causeways across the savannah: from Senegambia to Sierra Leone -- Ready money: The Gold Coast and the gold trade -- Rivers of cloth, masks of bronze: the bights of Benin and Biafra -- The kingdom of Kongo: from majesty to revolt -- Part two: Consequences: politics, belief and revolutions from below -- "With boots worth 3 slaves": slavery and value in the eighteenth century -- On a war footing: the "fiscal-military state" in West African politics -- Feeding power: new societies, new worldviews -- Transnational Africas, struggle, and the rising of modernity -- Warrior aritocracies and pushback from below -- Let them drink rum! Islam, revolution and the aristocracy.
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Books Books JST Library General Stacks DT<br>History of African DT 476 GRE (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 106829
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: Causes: economic divergence in West and West-Central Africa. "Three measures of gold": the rise and fall of the great empires of the Sahel -- Causeways across the savannah: from Senegambia to Sierra Leone -- Ready money: The Gold Coast and the gold trade -- Rivers of cloth, masks of bronze: the bights of Benin and Biafra -- The kingdom of Kongo: from majesty to revolt -- Part two: Consequences: politics, belief and revolutions from below -- "With boots worth 3 slaves": slavery and value in the eighteenth century -- On a war footing: the "fiscal-military state" in West African politics -- Feeding power: new societies, new worldviews -- Transnational Africas, struggle, and the rising of modernity -- Warrior aritocracies and pushback from below -- Let them drink rum! Islam, revolution and the aristocracy.

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