Essays, from an African perspective, on the nineteenth-century commercial transition in West Africa.

During the nineteenth century, the trans-Atlantic slave trade was made illegal and eventually sup...

Ouidah, an African town in Dahomey, now Benin, was the principal pre-colonial commercial centre o...

This third volume completes Robin Law's highly acclaimed edition of original correspondence of th...

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the...

In 1850 John Beecroft (a British Consul in West Africa) kept a diary of his diplomatic mission to...

This comprehensive analysis of gender in the working-class New Zealand suburbs of Dunedin illustr...

Re-envisages what we know about African political economies through its examination of one of the...

Can mediums communicate with the dead? Do people really believe they've been abducted by aliens? ...

The letter-books of the Royal African Company of England form the most substantial and important ...

Originally published in 1980 and here re-issued with an updated preface, this book deals with the...