This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines
how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy …

This pioneering and celebrated work was the first, and remains the standard, account of the
economic history of the huge area conventionally known as West Africa. The book ranges …

Patterns of Empire comprehensively examines the two most powerful empires in modern
history: the United States and Britain. Challenging the popular theory that the American …

Originally published in 1969 and as a second edition in 1976, this book gives a general
account of the major Yoruba kingdoms and provides a synthesis of Yoruba and Igbomina …

Africa's involvement in the changing world economy has been a long one, and its effects on
the lives of Africans have been profound. Samir Amin and WW Rostow, Felix Houphouet …

This book examines the attitudes and policies of the British Labour Movement towards the
British Empire and Commonwealth in the twentieth century. Its focus is not the British …

The concept of the city on the sub-Saharan continent presents a vast field of study whose
limits we must define. Urbanization entails spatial, social, and temporal phenomena and …

The ethnographic picture that can be built up for the part of the coast-lands from sixteenth-
and seventeenth-century European, especially Portuguese, accounts would seem to be …

A key theme in the West African trading system of the nineteenth century is the transition
from the slave trade to" legitimate" commerce, and its significance for the African societies of …

Originally published in 1976, this book combines detailed technical studies of the diplomacy
of the land and waterborne warfare of pre-colonial West Africa. It draws attention to the …