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A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

by Toby Green

By the time the “Scramble for Africa” among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth cen

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Publication date

Mar 21, 2019

Format

Print edition

Pages

640

ISBN

9780226644578