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Zusatztext Brokers of Change is a welcome addition to the under-represented field of pre-colonial Africa that presents Western Africa as a coherent space of insular and riverine connectivity. Informationen zum Autor Toby Green is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the Departments of History and of Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies, King's College London and an Honorary Fellow of the Centre of West African Studies, University of Birmingham. He is a director of the Amilcar Cabral Institute for Economic and Political Research, a think-tank dedicated to Guinea-Bissau. Klappentext This is an important collection of essays focusing on pre-colonial trade and African-European interaction, looking at western Africa between Senegal and Sierra Leone. It spans the whole pre-colonial period between the first Portuguese voyages of discovery and the transition to legitimate commerce in the 19th century. Zusammenfassung This is an important collection of essays focusing on pre-colonial trade and African-European interaction, looking at western Africa between Senegal and Sierra Leone. It spans the whole pre-colonial period between the first Portuguese voyages of discovery and the transition to legitimate commerce in the 19th century. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: African-European Relations 1: Gerhard Seibert: Creolization and Creole communities in the Portuguese Atlantic: São Tomé, Cape Verde and the Rivers of Guinea in comparison 2: Natalie Everts: A Motley Company: Differing Identities Among Euro-Africans in Eighteenth-Century Elmina 2: The Atlantic Dimension 3: Heather Dalton: 'Into speyne to selle for slavys': English, Spanish and Genoese merchant networks and their involvement with the 'cost of gwynea' trade prior to 1550 4: Filipa Ribeiro da Silva: Trading with Western Africa: 'Dutch' and Sephardim Insurance, Business and Agency (c. 1590-1674) 5: Ibrahima Seck: The French in Senegal: Trials and Tribulations of a Laboratory for ' Francité ' in the French Atlantic World (17th-19th Centuries) 3: The Insular Atlantic 6: Chris Evans; Marie-Louise Sorensen; Konstantin Richter: The Earliest Christian Church in the Tropics: Excavation of the N.ª S.ª da Conceição, Cidade Velha, Cape Verde 7: Bart Jacobs: On the Dutch Presence in 17th-century Senegambia and the Emergence of Papiamentu 8: Toby Green: The Emergence of a Mixed Cultural Framework in Cape Verde in the 17th-Century 4: Trade in Slaves and Commodities 9: Antonio de Almeida Mendes: Slavery, Society and the First Steps Towards an Atlantic Revolution in Senegambia Western Africa (XV-XVI Centuries) 10: Linda A. Newson: Bartering for Slaves on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Early Seventeenth Century 11: Michael Tuck: "Everyday Commodities, the Rivers of Guinea, and the Atlantic World: The Beeswax Export Trade, c.1450-c.1800" 5: "Post-Slavery" 12: George E. Brooks: American Trade with Cabo Verde and Guine, 1820s-1850s: Exploiting the Transition from Slave to legitimate Commerce 13: Philip J. Havik: "A Commanding Commercial Position": the African settlement of Bolama island and Anglo-Portuguese rivalry (1830-1870) 14: Marika Sherwood: 'Legitimate' traders, the building of empires and the long-term after-affects in Africa 15: José Lingna Nafafé: Challenges of the Atlantic voices: A call for recognition, slavery and post slavery in West Africa ...
