Includes bibliographical references (pages 477-516) and index.
Contents:
Part two: Consequences: politics, belief and revolutions from below -- "With boots worth 3 slaves": slavery and value in the eighteenth century -- Let them drink rum! Islam, revolution and the aristocracy. 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 aristocracies and pushback from below -- Let them drink rum! Islam, revolution and the aristocracy.
Summary:
"By the time the 'Scramble for Africa' among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries, but with the growth of the slave trade came the decline of African kingdoms. Drawing on written histories, archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations in Africa that have shaped global politics and economics since the fifteenth century and paints a masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present."--Back cover.
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