The development of indigenous trade and markets in West Africa : studies presented and discussed at the Tenth International African Seminar at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, December 1969
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The development of indigenous trade and markets in West Africa : studies presented and discussed at the Tenth International African Seminar at Fourah Bay College, Freetown, December 1969
（African ethnographic studies of the 20th century, v. 47）
Routledge, 2018, c1971
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Published for the International African Institute by Oxford University Press, 1971
Text in French or English with summaries in either language
Bibliography: p. [413]-432
Includes index
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Description
Originally published in 1971 and written in English and French, with summaries in both languages, the essays in this volume dsicuss the effects of internal economic and political conditions and of external relations on the development of trade and markets in West Africa from the period of the slave trade to the growth in the 20th century in production for overseas markets and rapidly expanding urban centres. Other essays discuss various aspects of local and regional trade and markets from the nineteenth century onwards.
Table of Contents
Part 1: Introduction Claude Meillasoux 1. Adaptations et reactions des societes ouest-africaines aux transformations de la traite 2. Les rapports de l'organisation sociale et du commerce 3. Le commerce a longue distance et les marchands 4. L'impact du capitalisme 5. Les marches et les aires marchandes. English version Part 2: Special Studies: The Adaptation of African Economy and Trade to Changes in the Nineteenth-Century European Trade 1. Prices and Profitability Colin W. Newbury 2. De la traite des esclaves a l'exportation de l'huile de palme et des palmistes au Dahomey: XIXe siecle Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch 3. Asante Policy Towards the Hausa Trade in the Nineteenth Century Ivor Wilks Trade and Social Organisation 4. Commerce pre-colonial et organisation sociale chez les Dida de Cote d'Ivoire Emmanuel Terray 5. L'organisation du commerce pre-colonial en Basse-Cote d'Ivoire et ses effets sur l'organisation sociale des populations cotieres Marc Auge 6. Trade and Trading Patterns of the Akan in the 17th and 18th Centuries Kwame Y. Daaku 7. Le commerce pre-colonial et le developpement de l'esclavage a Gubu du Sahel (Mali) Claude Meillassoux Long-distance Trading and the Development of Specialized Trading Groups 8. Atebubu Markets: ca. 1884-1930 Kwame Arhin 9. Les Yarse et le commerce dans le Yatenga pre-colonial Michel Izard 10. Pre-colonial trading networks and traders: The Diakhanke Philip D. Curtin 11. La cite marchande de Bouna dans l'ensemble economique Ouest-Africain pre-colonial Jean-Louis Boutillier 12. Parente et commerce chez les kooroko Jean-Loup Amselle 13. Cultural Strategies int e organization of Trading Diasporas Abner Cohen Trade Areas and Market Centres 14. Cycles de marches et 'espaces' socio-politiques Marc Piault 15. Two Types of West African House Trade Polly Hill 16. West African Market-Places: Temporal Periodicity and Locational spacing Robert H. T. Smith 17. Periodic and Daily Markets in West Africa B. W. Hodder The Impact of Modern Capitalism on African Trade 18. La politique coloniale francaise a l'egard de la bourgeoisie commercante senegalaise (1820-1960) Samir Amin 19. The Supply Response of Retail Trading Services to Urban Population Growth in Ghana Rowena M. Lawson 20. Capitalism, Capital Markets, and Competition in West African Trade Marvin P. Miracle
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