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Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800 /

"This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth through the eighteenth centuries. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. Prior to 1680, Africa's economic and military streng...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Thornton, John K. (John Kelly), 1949- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Edición:Second edition.
Colección:Studies in comparative world history.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. The birth of an Atlantic world 2. The development of commerce between Europeans and Africans 3. Slavery and African social structure 4. The process of enslavement and the slave trade 5. Africans in colonial Atlantic societies 6. Africans and Afro Americans in the Atlantic world: life and labor 7. African cultural groups in the Atlantic world 8. Transformations of African culture in the Atlantic world 9. African religions and Christianity in the Atlantic world 10. Resistance, runaways, and rebels 11. Africans in the eighteenth century Atlantic world.