J. M. Konczacki, Z. A. Konczacki

An Economic History of Tropical Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Volume One : The Pre-Colonial Period

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

These articles cover: early agricultural development; history of agricultural crops; patterns of land use and tenure; introduction and use of metals; economic and technological aspects of the Iron Age; patterns of trade; trade routes and centres; and media of exchange.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 324
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136270840
• Artikelnr.: 45133789

Autorenporträt

Z. A. KONCZACKI Professor of Economics, Dalhousie University and J. M. KONCZACKI Associate Professor, Mount St Vincent University

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT 1 The Spread of Food
Production in Sub-Saharan Africa 2 Speculations on the Coming of the Banana
to Uganda 3 The Cultivation and Use of Yams in West Africa 4 The
Introduction and Spread of Maize in Africa Part I LAND USE AND TENURE 5
Land Tenure: Group and Individual Rights 6 Land Tenure and Feudalism in
Africa 7 Land Tenure Rights in Ancient Ruanda Part llI INTRODUCTION AND USE
OF METALS 8 The Iron Age in the Sudan 9 Early Records of Iron in Abyssinia
10 An Essay on the History of Metals in West Africa Part IV SOME ECONOMIC
AND TECHNOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF THE IRON AGE 11 The Iron Age of Zambia 12
Aspects of the Ushi Iron Industry Part V PATTERNS OF TRADE 13 Trans-Saharan
Trade in the Middle Ages 14 Trade Patterns in Ghana at the Beginning of the
Eighteenth Century 15 Nineteenth-Century Trade in the Bamenda
Grass[1]fields, Southern Cameroons 16 Slavery and the Slave Trade in the
Context of West African History 17 Early Trade and Raw Materials in South
Central Africa 18 The East African Coast. An Historical and Archaeological
Review 19 The East African Slave Trade Edwar20 The East African Ivory Trade
in the Nineteenth Part VI TRADE ROUTES AND TRADE CENTRES 21 Some
Reflections on African Trade Routes 22 Long-Distance Trade-Routes in
Central Africa 23 Some Comments on the Origins of Traditional Markets in
Africa South of the Sahara 24 Trade Centres in the Northern Interlacustrine
Region Part VII MEDIA OF EXCHANGE AND STANDARDS OF VALUE 25 Native and
Trade Currencies in Southern Nigeria during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth
Centuries 26 Cowrie from North and South: an Episode in the History of the
Dahomean Currency System 27 The Ounce in Eighteenth-Century West African
Trade Marion Johnson 28 Salt Currency in Ethiopia in the Zamana Masafent