West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives

Author:   Christopher DeCorse (Syracuse University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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9781474291040


Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 October 2016
Format:   Hardback
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West Africa During the Atlantic Slave Trade: Archaeological Perspectives


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West Africa during the Atlantic Slave Trade surveys archaeological data from Senegal to the Cameroon. It focuses on the past 500 years, a period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social systems, as well as the consequences of European expansion, the advent of the Atlantic slave trade, and the expansion of Islamic polities in the West African Sahel. The geographical and topical scope of this volume draws together archaeological syntheses of various parts of West Africa and is an important resource for West Africanists and all researchers interested in the indigenous response to European expansion, as well as for those examining African continuities in the Americas.

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Author:   Christopher DeCorse (Syracuse University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9781474291040


ISBN 10:   147429104
Pages:   224
Publication Date:   06 October 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Foreword Merrick Posnansky 1. Introduction Christopher DeCorse 2. Tools for Understanding Transformation and Continuity in Senegambian Society: 1500 - 1900 Susan Keech McIntosh, with a contribution by I. Thiaw 3. Historical Process and the Impact of the Atlantic Trade on Banda, Ghana, c. 1800 - 1920 Ann Brower Stahl 4. The Effect of the Slave Trade on the Bassar Ironworking Society, Togo Philip Lynton de Barras 5. Change and Continuity in Coastal Benin Kenneth G. Kelly 6. Kanem-Borno: A Brief Summary of the History and Archaeology of an Empire of the Central Bilad al-Sudan Detlef Gronenborn 7. State Formation and Enslavement in the Southern Lake Chad Basin Scott MacEachern 8. 500 Years in the Cameroons: Making Sense of the Archaeological Record Augustin F. C. Holl 9. An Americanist Perspective of African Archaeology: Toward an Archaeology of the Black Atlantic Theresa A. Singleton Index

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Christopher DeCorse is Professor of Anthropology at the Maxwell School of Syracuse University, USA.

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