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"Green transforms our view of West and West-Central Africa by reconstructing the world of these kingdoms, which revolved around trade, diplomacy, complex religious beliefs, and the production of art. Green shows how the slave trade led to economic disparities that caused African kingdoms to lose relative political and economic power. The concentration of money in the hands of Atlantic elites in and outside these kingdoms brought about a revolutionary nineteenth century in Africa, parallel to the upheavals then taking place in Europe and America. Yet political fragmentation following the fall of African aristocracies produced radically different results as European colonization took hold"--Publisher marketing.

Note biographique

Toby Green is a senior lecturer in Lusophone African history and culture at King's College London and is author of The Rise of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in Western Africa, 1300-1589.

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