Africa and the West: A Documentary History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Africa and the West: A Documentary History write by William H. Worger. This book was released on 2010-02-02. Africa and the West: A Documentary History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Africa and the West presents a fascinating array of primary sources to engage readers in the history of Africa's long and troubled relationship with the West. Many of the sources have not previously appeared in print, or in books readily available to students. Volume 1 covers two major topics: the Atlantic slave trade and the European conquest. It details the beginnings of the slave trade, slavery as a business, the experiences of slaves, and the effect of abolitionism on the trade, using such documents as a letter from a sixteenth-century African king to the king of Portugal calling for a more regulated slave trade, and the nineteenth-century testimony of a South African slave accused of treason. The volume also covers the early nineteenth-century considerations of the costs and benefits of colonization, the development of conquest as the century progressed, with special attention to technology, legislation, empire, religion, racism, and violence, through such unusual documents as Cecil Rhodes's will and a chart of the costs of African animals exported to Western zoos.
A Fistful of Shells
A Fistful of Shells - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Fistful of Shells write by Toby Green. This book was released on 2019-03-21. A Fistful of Shells available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since. With A Fistful of Shells, Toby Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold. Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.
History of West Africa
History of West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook History of West Africa write by K. B. C. Onwubiko. This book was released on 1982. History of West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
An Economic History of West Africa
An Economic History of West Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook An Economic History of West Africa write by A. G. Hopkins. This book was released on 2014-09-19. An Economic History of West Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This is the standard account of the economic history of the vast area conventionally known as West Africa. Ranging from prehistoric time to independence it covers the former French as well as British colonies.
Themes in West Africa’s History
Themes in West Africa’s History - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Themes in West Africa’s History write by Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong. This book was released on 2006-01-15. Themes in West Africa’s History available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There has long been a need for a new textbook on West Africa’s history. In Themes in West Africa’s History, editor Emmanuel Kwaku Akyeampong and his contributors meet this need, examining key themes in West Africa’s prehistory to the present through the lenses of their different disciplines. The contents of the book comprise an introduction and thirteen chapters divided into three parts. Each chapter provides an overview of existing literature on major topics, as well as a short list of recommended reading, and breaks new ground through the incorporation of original research. The first part of the book examines paths to a West African past, including perspectives from archaeology, ecology and culture, linguistics, and oral traditions. Part two probes environment, society, and agency and historical change through essays on the slave trade, social inequality, religious interaction, poverty, disease, and urbanization. Part three sheds light on contemporary West Africa in exploring how economic and political developments have shaped religious expression and identity in significant ways. Themes in West Africa’s History represents a range of intellectual views and interpretations from leading scholars on West Africa’s history. It will appeal to college undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars in the way it draws on different disciplines and expertise to bring together key themes in West Africa’s history, from prehistory to the present.
