| Description |
1 online resource : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
Bloomsbury academic collections. The story of the trasatlantic slave trade.
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Bloomsbury academic collections. Story of the trasatlantic slave trade.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Tools for understanding transformation and continuity in Senegambian society : 1500-1900 / Susan Keech McIntosh, with a contribution by I. Thiaw -- Historical process and the impact of the Atlantic trade on Banda, Ghana, c. 1800-1920 / Ann Brower Stahl -- The effect of the slave trade on the Bassar ironworking society, Togo / Philip Lynton de Barros -- Change and continuity in coastal Bénin / Kenneth G. Kelly -- Kanem-Borno : a brief summary of the history and archaeology of an empire of the central bilad al-sudan / Detlef Gronenborn -- State formation and enslavement in the southern Lake Chad basin / Scott MacEachern -- 500 years in the Cameroons : making sense of the archaeological record / Augustin F.C. Holl -- An Americanist perspective on African archaeology : toward an archaeology of the Black Atlantic / Theresa A. Singleton. |
| Summary |
Surveying archaeological data from West Africa, with sites ranging from the Senegambia to the Cameroon, this volume focuses on data from about 1500, a time period that witnessed dramatic transformations in African political and social life. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Africa, West.
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Africa, West -- Antiquities.
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Slave trade -- Africa, West.
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West. |
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Antiquities |
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Excavations (Archaeology) |
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Slave trade |
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West Africa |
| Added Author |
DeCorse, Christopher R., editor.
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| ISBN |
9781474291057 (electronic bk.) |
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1474291058 (electronic bk.) |
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9780718502478 |
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