A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

by Toby Green

Book Overview

By the time the "Scramble for Africa" among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries, but with the growth of the slave trade came the decline of African kingdoms. Drawing on written histories, archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations in Africa that have shaped global politics and economics since the fifteenth century and paints a masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022678973X
• ISBN13: 9780226789736
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 650 Pages
• Weight: 2.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"