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4 - Africa and the Slave Trades

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 September 2018

Pim de Zwart
Affiliation:
Wageningen Universiteit, The Netherlands
Jan Luiten van Zanden
Affiliation:
Universiteit Utrecht, The Netherlands
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The Origins of Globalization
World Trade in the Making of the Global Economy, 1500-1800
, pp. 92 - 120
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Akyeampong, Emmanuel, Bates, Robert H., Nunn, Nathan and Robinson, James A. (eds) (2014), Africa's Development in Historical Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Austin, Gareth (2008b). ‘Resources, Techniques and Strategies South of the Sahara: Revising the Factor Endowments Perspective on African Economic Development, 1500–2000’, Economic History Review 61, pp. 587624.Google Scholar
Boshoff, W. and Fourie, J. (2010). ‘The Significance of the Cape Trade Route to Economic Activity in the Cape Colony: A Medium-Term Business Cycle Analysis’, European Review of Economic History 14, pp. 469503.Google Scholar
Iliffe, John (1995). Africans: The History of a Continent. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Inikori, Joseph E. (2007). ‘Africa and the Globalization Process: Western Africa, 1450–1850’, Journal of Global History 2, pp. 6386.Google Scholar
Jerven, M. (2016). ‘Capitalism in Pre-Colonial Africa: A Review’, AEHN Working Paper No. 27.Google Scholar
Klein, Herbert S. (2010). The Atlantic Slave Trade. (2nd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Lovejoy, Paul E. (2011). Transformations in Slavery. A history of slavery in Africa. (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Google Scholar
Nunn, Nathan (2008). ‘The Long-Term Effects of Africa's Slave Trades’, Quarterly Journal of Economics 123, pp. 139176.Google Scholar

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