Brokers of Change
Atlantic Commerce and Cultures in Pre-Colonial Western Africa
Sorozatcím: Proceedings of the British Academy; 178;
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- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2012. augusztus 16.
- ISBN 9780197265208
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem320 oldal
- Méret 241x167x27 mm
- Súly 896 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk c. 12 maps, 3 figures 0
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Rövid leírás:
This is an important collection of essays focusing on pre-colonial trade and African-European interaction, looking at western Africa between Senegal and Sierra Leone. It spans the whole pre-colonial period between the first Portuguese voyages of discovery and the transition to legitimate commerce in the 19th century.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
The Atlantic Ocean, transcending national boundaries as it does, has long been seen as a pivotal site for understanding the way in which local and regional economies and cultural frameworks gradually became integrated into a global system during the early modern era. A key concept that has brought new insight to the study of transnationalism is that of brokerage. Brokers are people who link up different worlds and are at ease in a variety of cultural settings; they have flexibility of outlook and cultural identification. Brokerage can explain and add nuance to the multiple cultural worlds and intense trade characteristics of regions of West Africa.
The essays collected here are by leading scholars in the field of the pre-colonial history of Western Africa (the region between Senegal and Sierra Leone). They span the whole pre-colonial period between the first Portuguese voyages of discovery and the transition to legitimate commerce. The volume offers the first real synthesis of the importance of this region of Africa in the emergence of the Atlantic world between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries. It has sections on African-European relations; the Cape Verde islands and wider Atlantic trade; trade in slaves and commodities; and the transition to 'legitimate' commerce. Thus the essays here offer scholars and general readers a real chance to engage with an important part of Africa.
Overall, the collection successfully engages with important themes concerning the creation and maintenance of intercontinental exchanges, and the development of Creole communities. It is possible to overdo concepts such as the Black Atlantic, suggesting a false unity through a perceived shared geography; this book wisely avoids that trap, by gathering particularistic, detailed studies with rich individual biographies, and giving them cohesion through the overarching theme of brokers.
Tartalomjegyzék:
1: African-European Relations
Creolization and Creole communities in the Portuguese Atlantic: S--o Tom--, Cape Verde and the Rivers of Guinea in comparison
A Motley Company: Differing Identities Among Euro-Africans in Eighteenth-Century Elmina
2: The Atlantic Dimension
'Into speyne to selle for slavys': English, Spanish and Genoese merchant networks and their involvement with the 'cost of gwynea' trade prior to 1550
Trading with Western Africa: 'Dutch' and Sephardim Insurance, Business and Agency (c. 1590-1674)
The French in Senegal: Trials and Tribulations of a Laboratory for -- Francit-- -- in the French Atlantic World (17th-19th Centuries)
3: The Insular Atlantic
The Earliest Christian Church in the Tropics: Excavation of the N.-- S.-- da Concei----o, Cidade Velha, Cape Verde
On the Dutch Presence in 17th-century Senegambia and the Emergence of Papiamentu
The Emergence of a Mixed Cultural Framework in Cape Verde in the 17th-Century
4: Trade in Slaves and Commodities
Slavery, Society and the First Steps Towards an Atlantic Revolution in Senegambia Western Africa (XV-XVI 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-c.1800"
5: "Post-Slavery"
American Trade with Cabo Verde and Guine, 1820s-1850s: Exploiting the Transition from 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-affects in Africa
Challenges of the Atlantic voices: A call for recognition, slavery and post slavery in West Africa
