From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The initial ‘crisis of adaptation’: the impact of British abolition on the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa, 1808–1820
- 2 The West African palm oil trade in the nineteenth century and the ‘crisis of adaptation’
- 3 The compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in Dahomey, 1818–1858
- 4 Between abolition and Jihad: the Asante response to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807–1896
- 5 Plantations and labour in the south-east Gold Coast from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century
- 6 Owners, slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial transition at Lagos
- 7 Slaves, Igbo women and palm oil in the nineteenth century
- 8 ‘Legitimate’ trade and gender relations in Yorubaland and Dahomey
- 9 In search of a desert-edge perspective: the Sahara-Sahel and the Atlantic trade, c. 1815–1900
- 10 The ‘New International Economic Order’ in the nineteenth century: Britain's first Development Plan for Africa
- Appendix The ‘crisis of adaptation’: a bibliography
- Index
Appendix The ‘crisis of adaptation’: a bibliography
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 September 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 The initial ‘crisis of adaptation’: the impact of British abolition on the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa, 1808–1820
- 2 The West African palm oil trade in the nineteenth century and the ‘crisis of adaptation’
- 3 The compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in Dahomey, 1818–1858
- 4 Between abolition and Jihad: the Asante response to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807–1896
- 5 Plantations and labour in the south-east Gold Coast from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century
- 6 Owners, slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial transition at Lagos
- 7 Slaves, Igbo women and palm oil in the nineteenth century
- 8 ‘Legitimate’ trade and gender relations in Yorubaland and Dahomey
- 9 In search of a desert-edge perspective: the Sahara-Sahel and the Atlantic trade, c. 1815–1900
- 10 The ‘New International Economic Order’ in the nineteenth century: Britain's first Development Plan for Africa
- Appendix The ‘crisis of adaptation’: a bibliography
- Index
Summary
This is not a bibliography of works cited in the contributions to this volume, but a guide to the literature on the commercial transition in nineteenth-century western Africa, including especially the debate on the concept of a ‘crisis of adaptation’. It is confined to works which deal wholly or substantially with the history and implications of the transition, rather than those which mention it only casually or briefly, to works which bear upon the African as opposed to the European side of the Atlantic trade (though this distinction is difficult to make in practice), and chronologically, to those which deal with the pre-colonial rather than the colonial period (though, again, this distinction is not always clear-cut); but within these limitations, it is (in intention, though doubtless not in execution) comprehensive.
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- From Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' CommerceThe Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa, pp. 265 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1995