An authoritative and comprehensive study of the palm oil trade.

This edited collection, written by eleven leading specialists, examines the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa: the ending of the Atlantic

West African Worlds provides a critical assessment of social, economic and political change in Africa’s most populous and arguably most externally focused reg

This is the standard account of the economic history of the vast area conventionally known as West Africa. Ranging from prehistoric time to independence it cove

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