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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
Green, Toby
Date Written: 2019-03-01Publisher: University of Chicago Press Year Published: 2019 Pages: 640pp ISBN: 9780226644578 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX23541 A history of West Africa from the 17th century onwards. Draws on written histories as well as archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters. Abstract: -- Table of Contents: List of Maps Foreword Note on Spellings/Names Glossary Introduction Part One Causes: Economic Divergence in West and West- Central Africa Timelines for Part One 1 'Three Measures of Gold': The Rise and Fall of the Great Empires of the Sahel 2 Causeways across the Savannah: From Senegambia to Sierra Leone 3 Ready Money: The Gold Coast and the Gold Trade 4 Rivers of Cloth, Masks of Bronze: The Bights of Benin and Biafra 5 The Kingdom of Kongo: From Majesty to Revolt Coda to Part One Part Two Consequences: Politics, Belief and Revolutions from Below Timeline for Part Two: West African Political History, c. 1680–1850 Prologue to Part Two 6 ‘With Boots Worth 3 Slaves’: Slavery and Value in the Eighteenth Century 7 On a War Footing: The 'Fiscal- Military State' in West African Politics 8 Feeding Power: New Societies, New Worldviews 9 Transnational Africas, Struggle and the Rising of Modernity 10 Warrior Aristocracies and Pushback from Below 11 Let them Drink Rum! Islam, Revolution and the Aristocracy Conclusion Bibliography Notes List of Illustrations Index Subject Headings |