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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: A. G. Hopkins (University of Cambridge)Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Edition: 2nd edition Weight: 0.660kg ISBN: 9780367002442ISBN 10: 0367002442 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 28 October 2019 Audience: College/higher education , General/trade , Tertiary & Higher Education , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction to the Second Edition 1 Approaches to Africa’s economic past 2 The domestic economy: structure and function 3 External trade: the Sahara and the Atlantic 4 The economic basis of imperialism 5 An economic model of colonialism 6 Completing the open economy 7 The open economy under strain 8 The economy in retrospectReviews'An Economic History of West Africa asserts the centrality of the market in historical reconstruction, thereby exposing the crisis of adaptation to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, the shift to primary commodity production, and the economic cycles that presaged European imperialism, conquest and the distorted development of colonialism. Hopkins's reflective Introduction is a masterful overview of how he has stimulated research and shaped debate ever since.' Paul Lovejoy, York University, Canada 'If something like a classic on the economic history of Africa exists, it is Hopkins's volume on the economic history of West Africa published in 1973. The study has now been re-published after nearly half a century, augmented by a long Introduction by the author... [a] tour de force covering 50 years of historiography...' Andreas Eckert, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung 'An Economic History of West Africa asserts the centrality of the market in historical reconstruction, thereby exposing the crisis of adaptation to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, the shift to primary commodity production, and the economic cycles that presaged European imperialism, conquest and the distorted development of colonialism. Hopkins's reflective Introduction is a masterful overview of how he has stimulated research and shaped debate ever since.' Paul Lovejoy, York University, Canada Author InformationA. G. Hopkins is Emeritus Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge, UK. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of London, honorary doctorates from the Universities of Stirling and Birmingham, and is a Fellow of the British Academy. He has written extensively on African history, imperial history, and globalisation. His other publications include: Globalization in World History (2001); Global History: Interactions between the Universal and the Local (2006); British Imperialism, written with P. J. Cain (3rd ed. 2016); American Empire: A Global History (2018); and numerous scholarly articles. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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