Political Economy of Interior

Informationen zum Autor By Jarvis L. Hargrove Klappentext This book analyzes the Asante transition to legitimate commerce in the nineteenth century and highlights the political and economic relationships of the Asante state with surrounding African groups and European traders. Zusammenfassung This book analyzes the Asante transition to legitimate commerce in the nineteenth century and highlights the political and economic relationships of the Asante state with surrounding African groups and European traders. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chapter 1: European Arrival in West Africa and the Gold Coast: Portuguese, Dutch and British, 1440-1680Chapter 2: The Akan and the Formation of the Asante StateChapter 3: Slave Trading and Trade Routes on the Gold Coast: The Fight for the Coast Line, 1770-1820 Chapter 4: The Gold Coast, Abolition Laws and the Era of Illegal Slave Trading, 1776-1842Chapter 5: Economic Transition within Greater Asante in the Mid-nineteenth CenturyChapter 6: The Asante-British Treaties and Conflicts, 1817-1874

Product details

• Authors: Jarvis L Hargrove, Jarvis L. Hargrove, Hargrove Jarvis L.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9780739187852
• ISBN: 978-0-7391-8785-2
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Ghana, European History, HISTORY / Europe / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Africa / West, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Colonialism & imperialism, Social and cultural history, Colonialism and imperialism, African History