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  • Transformations in Slavery

    A History of Slavery in Africa

    Series Book 117 - African Studies
    This history of African slavery from the fifteenth to the early twentieth centuries examines how indigenous African slavery developed within an international context. Paul E. Lovejoy discusses the medieval Islamic slave trade and the Atlantic trade as well as the enslavement process and the marketing of slaves. He considers the impact of European abolition and assesses slavery's role in African ... Read more

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  • Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa

    Series series Global Africa
    The collective significance of the themes that are explored in Slavery in the Global Diaspora of Africa bridge the Atlantic and thereby provide insights into historical debates that address the ways in which parts of Africa fitted into the modern world that emerged in the Atlantic basin.The study explores the conceptual problems of studying slavery in Africa and the broader Atlantic world from a ... Read more

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  • Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions

    In Jihād in West Africa during the Age of Revolutions, a preeminent historian of Africa argues that scholars of the Americas and the Atlantic world have not given Africa its due consideration as part of either the Atlantic world or the age of revolutions. The book examines the jihād movement in the context of the age of revolutions—commonly associated with the American and French revolutions and ... Read more

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  • Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua

    An Enslaved Muslim of the Black Atlantic

    A literate Muslim born between 1820 and 1830 in present-day Benin, Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua was enslaved in West Africa and forcibly moved to Brazil in 1845. During a trip to New York City in 1847, he escaped from his master and fled to Haiti, where he converted to Christianity. When he eventually returned to the United States, he enrolled in New York Central College. Baquaqua published his ... Read more

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  • Igbo in the Atlantic World

    African Origins and Diasporic Destinations

    The Igbo are one of the most populous ethnic groups in Nigeria and are perhaps best known and celebrated in the work of Chinua Achebe. In this landmark collection on Igbo society and arts, Toyin Falola and Raphael Chijioke Njoku have compiled a detailed and innovative examination of the Igbo experience in Africa and in the diaspora. Focusing on institutions and cultural practices, the volume ... Read more

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  • Economic Aspects of Oil Conservation Regulation

    Series series RFF Energy Policy Set
    This book traces the history and implementation of regulation programs for state crude oil production. Originally published in 1967 ... Read more

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  • Methods of Estimating Reserves of Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids (Routledge Revivals)

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Methods of Estimating Reserves of Crude Oil, Natural Gas, and Natural Gas Liquids, first published in 1965, aims to throw new light on a field of knowledge vital to consideration of problems of public policy regarding future sources of energy. This book will be of interest to students of environmental studies. ... Read more

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  • Liberated Africans and the Abolition of the Slave Trade, 1807-1896

    In 1807, Britain and the United States passed legislation limiting and ultimately prohibiting the transoceanic slave trade. As world powers negotiated anti-slave-trade treaties thereafter, British, Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian,French, and US authorities seized ships suspected of illegal slave trading, raided slave barracoons, and detained newly landed slaves. The judicial processes in a network ... Read more

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  • Unfree Labour in the Development of the Atlantic World

    Series series Routledge Studies in Slave and Post-Slave Societies and Cultures
    This collection of essays examines the different forms of unfree labour that contributed to the development of the Atlantic world and, by extension, the debates and protests that emerged concerning labour servitude and the abolition of slavery in the West. ... Read more

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  • Consuming Habits: Global and Historical Perspectives on How Cultures Define Drugs

    Drugs in History and Anthropology

    Covering a wide range of substances, including opium, cocaine, coffee, tobacco, kola, and betelnut, from prehistory to the present day, this new edition has been extensively updated, with an updated bibliography and two new chapters on cannabis and khat. Consuming Habits is the perfect companion for all those interested in how different cultures have defined drugs across the ages.Psychoactive ... Read more

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  • Sources and Methods in African History

    Spoken Written Unearthed

    Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing.This book is both a snapshot of ... Read more

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  • The Atlantic and Africa

    The Second Slavery and Beyond

    Series series SUNY series, Fernand Braudel Center Studies in Historical Social Science
    Traces the inner connections between the second slavery in the Americas, slavery in Africa, the abolition of the Atlantic slave trade, and the "Great Transformation" of the nineteenth century world economy.The Atlantic and Africa breaks new ground by exploring the connections between two bodies of scholarship that have developed separately from one another. On the one hand, the "second slavery" ... Read more

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