出版社: University of Chicago Press
副标题: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution
出版年: 2019-3
页数: 640
定价: $40.00
装帧: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780226644578
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least...
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. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a millennium, and the sophisticated kingdoms spanning its west coast had traded with Europeans since the fifteenth century. Until at least 1650, this was a trade of equals, using a variety of currencies—most importantly, cowrie shells imported from the Maldives and nzimbu shells imported from Brazil. But, as the slave trade grew, African kingdoms began to lose prominence in the growing global economy. We have been living with the effects of this shift ever since.
With A Fistful of Shells, Toby 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.
Drawing not just on written histories, but on archival research in nine countries, art, oral history, archaeology, and letters, Green lays bare the transformations that have shaped world politics and the global economy since the fifteenth century and paints a new and masterful portrait of West Africa, past and present.
作者简介 · · · · · ·
【作者简介】
托比•格林(Toby Green),英国历史学家、伦敦国王学院葡语非洲历史和文化高级讲师,现担任英国国家学术院非洲历史资料委员会主席,撰写了大量有关非洲早期现代历史和殖民时代非洲奴隶制的作品。
【译者简介】
郭建龙,自由作家、社会观察家,曾任《21世纪经济报道》记者,已出版《穿越非洲两百年》《汴京之围》,以及“帝国密码三部曲”“亚洲三部曲”等作品。
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1492年,历经数月的海上辗转和漂泊,哥伦布一行踏上了美洲大陆。从此,美洲进入了欧洲国家开启的全球化贸易的版图,从此,美洲开启了被掠夺的宿命。 而在此前的1415年,为扑灭当地海盗、控制西非的黄金和象牙进口,葡萄牙占领了海上贸易的中转站休达港。随后为直接与出产黄金的... (展开)历史上的西非并非游离在“文明之外”,而是一直身处其中
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那些散落的西非历史碎片
一把海贝抿成沙——前殖民时代的西非
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一 “非洲,全世界最大的荒野地带,地球上唯一能欣赏大自然神奇魔力的地方”,这是2013年BBC拍摄的纪录片《非洲(Africa)》的第一句台词。旁白大卫·爱登堡(David Attenborough)爵士这样说当然是为了扣紧这一生态纪录片的主题,但是想来大多数人都和我一样,对非洲的大体印象... (展开)揭开奴隶制背后被遗忘的非洲历史 -从货币角度找寻非洲落后的根源
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