Commerce and Economic Change in West Africa
The Palm Oil Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Series: African Studies; 93;
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 11 December 1997
- ISBN 9780521590747
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages290 pages
- Size 235x160x25 mm
- Weight 600 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 maps 29 tables 0
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Short description:
An authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade.
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A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth century is the transition from the slave trade to 'legitimate' commerce, and its significance for the African societies of the region. In this period of transition, trade in palm oil was at the core of relations between Britain and West Africa, and of immense importance to the economies of large parts of West Africa. Martin Lynn's authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade covers the whole of this critical period for all of West Africa. It explains how the palm oil trade grew organically out of the organisation of the slave trade. The situation changed sharply with the development of steam communication between Britain and West Africa from the 1850s, leading to severe problems for the commerce in the second half of the century, the erosion of African brokers' powers, and the restructuring of the trade thereafter. The result was a crisis within the trade towards the end of the century and, eventually, with the arrival of colonial rule, the ending of the long established structures of the commerce.
"Lynn's command and interpretation of the various sources is most impressive. A significant contribution to the economic history of both West Africa and the British Empire. Undergraduates and above." Choice
Table of Contents:
Introduction; Part I. The Development of the Palm Oil Trade in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century: 1. The West African trade in transition; 2. African producers and palm oil production; 3. African brokers and the growth of the palm oil trade; 4. British traders, British ports, and the expansion of the palm oil trade; Part II. Restructuring of the Palm Products Trade in the Second Half of the Nineteenth Century: 5. Technological change, the British market, and African producers; 6. British traders and the restructuring of the palm products trade; 7. African brokers and the struggle for the palm products trade; 8. The coming of colonial rule and the ending of legitimate trade; Conclusion.
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