Migrants, credit, and climate :

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DC Field	Value	Language
dc.contributor.author	Kenneth, Swindell	-
dc.contributor.author	Alieu, Jeng	-
dc.contributor.editor	Mongi Bahloul	-
dc.date.accessioned	2018-10-12T13:58:21Z	-
dc.date.available	2018-10-12T13:58:21Z	-
dc.date.issued	2006	-
dc.identifier.isbn	978-90-04-14059-2	-
dc.identifier.uri	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10093	-
dc.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	-
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Brill	en_US
dc.subject	Peanut industry—Gambia—History	en_US
dc.title	Migrants, credit, and climate :	en_US
dc.title.alternative	The Gambian Groundnut trade, 1834–1934	en_US
dc.type	Book	en_US
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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