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A fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution
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- ISBN: 9780241003176 (hardcover)
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Physical Description:
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xxxv, 613 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm - Publisher: London : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2019.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Maps includes, some on endpapers. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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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| Subject: | Africa, West History To 1884 |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Cookstown Branch | 966.02 Gre | 31681010143659 | NONFIC | Available | - |
