Brokers of change : Atlantic commerce and cultures in precolonial Western Africa. edited by Toby Green

• Author: Green, Toby (1974-..)
• Subjects: Slave trade -- History -- Congresses -- Africa, West;
  Traite des esclaves -- Histoire -- Congrès -- Afrique occidentale;
  Africa, West -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses -- Europe;
  Europe -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses -- Africa, West;
  Europe -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses -- Africa;
  Cape Verde -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses -- Europe;
  Netherlands -- Commerce -- History -- Congresses -- Africa, West;
  Africa, West -- History -- Congresses -- To 1884;
  Afrique occidentale -- Commerce -- Histoire -- Congrès -- Europe;
  Europe -- Commerce -- Histoire -- Congrès -- Afrique occidentale;
  Europe -- Commerce -- Histoire -- Congrès -- Afrique;
  Cap-Vert -- Commerce -- Histoire -- Congrès -- Europe;
  Pays-Bas -- Commerce -- Histoire -- Congrès -- Afrique occidentale;
  Afrique occidentale -- Congrès -- Jusqu'à 1884
• Description: Communications présentées lors d'une conférence tenue au Centre d'Etudes Africaines de l'Ouest, Université de Birmingham du 11 au 13 juin 2009
  Notes bibliogr. en bas de pages. Index
  Creolization and Creole communities in the Portugese Atlantic : São Tomé, Cape Verde, the Rivers of Guinea and Central Africa in comparison A motley company : differing identities among Euro-Africans in eighteenth-century Elmina Challenges of the African voice: autonomy, commerce, and resistance in Precolonial Western Africa "Into speyne to selle for slavys" : English, Spanish, and Genoese merchant networks and their involvement with the "Cost of Gwynea" trade before 1550 Dutch trade with Senegambia, Guinea, and Cape Verde, c.1590-1674 The French discovery of Senegal : premises for a policy of selective assimilation An early Christian church in the Tropics : excavation of the N.a S.a da Conceição, Cidade Velha, Cape Verde The Dutch in seventeenth-century Senegambia and the emergence of Papiamentu The emergence of a mixed society in Cape Verde in the seventeenth century Slavery, society, and the first steps towards an Atlantic revolution in Western Africa (fifteenth-sixteenth centuries) Bartering for slaves on the upper Guinea coast in the early seventeenth century Everyday commodities, the rivers of Guinea, and the Atlantic world : the Beeswax Export Trade, c.1450-1800 American trade with Cabo Verde and Guine, 1820s-1850s: exploiting the transition form slave to legitimate commerce "A commanding commercial position" : the African settlement of Bolama Island and Anglo-Portuguese rivalry (1830-1870) "Legitimate" traders, the building of empires, and the long-term after-effects in Africa
  
• Related Titles: Series: Proceedings of the British Academy 178
• Publisher: Oxford New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012
  
• Creation Date: 2012
  
• Format: 1 vol. (xiv-415 p.) : cartes, jaquette ill. en coul. ; 25 cm
  
• Language: English