Title:	Migrants, credit, and climate :
Other Titles:	The Gambian Groundnut trade, 1834–1934
Authors:	Kenneth, Swindell Alieu, Jeng Mongi Bahloul
Keywords:	Peanut industry—Gambia—History
Issue Date:	2006
Publisher:	Brill
Description:	From the 15th century onwards the peoples of West Africa were increasingly drawn into trading with Europeans, who vied with each other for control of the exports from this region. First the trade in gold, hides, ivory and gum arabic, then in the 17th and 18th centuries the Atlantic slave trade, which was replaced in the 19th century by the export of agricultural staples. The decline and abolition of the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa, and its replacement by legitimate trade have raised a number of issues about their implications for West African polities and societies. These issues include discussions about the political economies of the metropoles, free trade, the shifting balance of power between Africans and Europeans, crises of political and economic adaptation, together with partition and colonial administration
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10093
ISBN:	978-90-04-14059-2
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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