G. Ugo Nwokeji

The Slave Trade and Culture in the Bight of Biafra

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Produktbeschreibung

G. Ugo Nwokeji explains the structure, dramatic expansion, and manifold effects of the slave trade in the Bight of Biafra.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 647g
• ISBN-13: 9780521883474
• ISBN-10: 0521883474
• Artikelnr.: 29578797

Autorenporträt

G. Ugo Nwokeji is Assistant Professor of African American Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the cultural history and political economy of Africa since 1500, with particular focus on international commerce in the Nigerian Niger Delta and its hinterland. Professor Nwokeji is the author of the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy's The Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation and the Development of the Nigerian Oil and Gas Industry: History, Strategies, and Current Directions (2007) and multiple journal articles and book chapters, as well as co-editor of Religion, History and Politics in Nigeria (2005).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. The Aro in the Atlantic context: expansion and shifts, 1600s-1807
3. The trade diaspora in regional context: commercial organization in the era of expansion, 1740-1850
4. Culture formation in the trading frontier, c.1740-c.1850
5. Household and market persons: deportees and society, c.1740-c.1850
6. The slave trade, gender, and culture
7. Cultural and economic aftershocks
8. Summary and conclusions.