George E Brooks

Landlords And Strangers (eBook, ePUB)

Ecology, Society, And Trade In Western Africa, 1000-1630

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This volume contains the papers presented. The viewpoints represent those who favor a negotiated settlement through the Contadora process, those who espouse the policies of the Reagan administration, and those who analyze the different tendencies of the Nicaraguan democratic opposition in-exile.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 378
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429719233
• Artikelnr.: 56940719

Autorenporträt

George E. Brooks is professor of history at Indiana University, where he has taught African history and world history since 1962. He first undertook research in western Africa in 1961, has since returned seven times, and has visited other parts of Africa as well. He is a fellow of the African Studies Association, a member of the Liberian Studies Association and the Mande Studies Association (MANSA), and serves on the executive council of the World History Association.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Western Africa: The Environmental Seiting 3. Language
Groups and Social Organizations 4. The Development of Western African
Commercial Networks: An Overview 5. Mande Caravan Routes Linking
Senegambia, the Upper Guinea Coast, and the Malaguetta Coast 6.
Biafada-Sapi, Banyun-Bak, and Kruan Coastwise and Riverine Networks 7. The
Era of Mandekalu Horse Warriors and State Building 8. European Voyages of
Reconnaissance and the Inauguration of New Trading Relationships 9. The
Cabo Verde Archipelago-Western Africa Nexus 10. African Landlords and
Competing European and Cabo Verdean Strangers 11. Senegambia and the
Banyun-Bak Commercial Sphere 12. The Biafada-Sapi and Kruan Trade Networks