This review surveys anthropological and other social research on money and finance. It
emphasizes money's social roles and meanings as well as its pragmatics in different …

In America, almost all the money in circulation passes through financial institutions every
day. But in Nigeria's" cash and carry" system, 90 percent of the currency never comes back …

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 …

As the slave trade entered its last, illegal phase in the 19th century, the town of Lagos on
West Africa's Bight of Benin became one of the most important port cities north of the …

The nineteenth century in Africa was a time of revolution and tumultuous change in virtually
all spheres. Violent dry spells, the staggered abolition of the slave trade, mass migrations …

For nearly 500 years Calabar has had one of the longest unbroken contacts with Europe of
any port on the West African coast. Originally published in 1972, this book outlines the …

The British colonies and protectorates in tropical Africa had not been claimed originally
because they were needed as colonial estates. Rather, they had been claimed for strategic …

Only recently have historians devoted much attention to monetary developments in African
history, primarily because the substantivist school of economic anthropology, which has …

Originating in the sea, especially in the waters surrounding the low-lying islands of the
Maldives, Cypraea moneta (sometimes confused with Cypraea annulus) was transported to …

A series of fundamental changes affected world monetary systems in the late nineteenth
century. In Europe the major powers adopted the gold standard from the 1870's onward …