Indian Cotton Textiles in West Africa African Agency, Consumer Demand and the Making of the Global Economy, 1750-1850 /

• Main Author: Kobayashi, Kazuo (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Subjects: World history.; Africa-History.; Asia-History.; Economic history.; Labor-History.; World History, Global and Transnational History.; African History.; History of South Asia.; Economic History.; Labor History.

'A much-needed, excellently researched history of Senegambia's non-slave trade role in global commerce, centred on the south-south trade in Indian cloths facilitated by both the French and British empires... The scholarship is of the highest quality.' - Bronwen Everill, Gonville &...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Introduction
• 2 West African Seaborne Trade, 1750-1850: The Transition from the Slave Trade to the 'Legitimate' Commerce
• 3 Guinées in the Lower Senegal River: A Consumer-Led Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century
• 4 Procurement of Indian Textiles for West Africa, 1750-1850
• 5 Western European Merchants and West Africa, 1750-1850
• 6 Conclusion. .