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Author : John Kelly Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 24,99 MB
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521627245
This edition contains a new chapter extending the story into the eighteenth century.
Author : John Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 29,98 MB
Release : 1998-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 113964338X
This book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military strength gave African elites the capacity to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics of colonization which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers, and he explains why African slaves were placed in roles of central significance. Estate structure and demography affected the capacity of slaves to form a self-sustaining society and behave as cultural actors, transferring and transforming African culture in the New World.
Author : John Kelly Thornton
Publisher :
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 24,92 MB
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 9781139648899
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 strength enabled African elites to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics that made slaves so necessary to European colonizers. He explains why African slaves were placed in significant roles. Estate structure and demography affected the capacity of slaves to form a self-sustaining society and behave as cultural actors. This second edition contains a new chapter on eighteenth century developments.
Author : John Kelly Thornton
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 26,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category :
ISBN : 9781139636346
Author : John K. Thornton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 10,33 MB
Release : 1999-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1135365849
Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires. It includes the discussion of: : * the relationship between war and the slave trade * the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies * the influence of climatic and ecological factors on warfare patterns and dynamics * the impact of social organization and military technology, including the gunpowder revolution * case studies of warfare in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Benin and West Central Africa
Author : Linda M. Heywood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 13,99 MB
Release : 2007-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0521770653
This book establishes Central Africa as the origin of most Africans brought to English and Dutch American colonies in North America, the Caribbean, and South America before 1660. It reveals that Central Africans were frequently possessors of an Atlantic Creole culture and places the movement of slaves and creation of the colonies within an Atlantic historical framework.
Author : John K. Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1088 pages
File Size : 28,46 MB
Release : 2012-08-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1139536192
A Cultural History of the Atlantic World, 1250–1820 explores the idea that strong links exist in the histories of Africa, Europe and North and South America. John K. Thornton provides a comprehensive overview of the history of the Atlantic Basin before 1830 by describing political, social and cultural interactions between the continents' inhabitants. He traces the backgrounds of the populations on these three continental landmasses brought into contact by European navigation. Thornton then examines the political and social implications of the encounters, tracing the origins of a variety of Atlantic societies and showing how new ways of eating, drinking, speaking and worshipping developed in the newly created Atlantic World. This book uses close readings of original sources to produce new interpretations of its subject.
Author : John Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 35,57 MB
Release : 1992-04-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521392334
This book shows how important the African role was in shaping the Atlantic world that developed after the navigational breakthroughs of the fifteenth century. The degree of African initiative displayed in this period is stressed, both by African elites in dealing with the new visitors and trading partners and, even by African slaves in the New World. Evenly divided into sections on Africa and Africans in the New World, this study stresses cultural and institutional backgrounds to Africa and African slaves. Although the book is intended to help Africanists understand how Africans fared in the Americas, its main purpose is to give readers familiar with Afro-American history a fuller and more dynamic vision of Africa, so they can see the African slave as an African and not just as a laborer.
Author : John Kelly Thornton
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 32,68 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Africa, West
ISBN : 9781857283921
Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires. It includes the discussion of: : * the relationship between war and the slave trade * the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies * the influence of climatic and ecological factors on warfare patterns and dynamics * the impact of social organization and military technology, including the gunpowder revolution * case studies of warfare in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Benin and West Central Africa
Author : John K. Thornton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 36,46 MB
Release : 2020-03-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1107127157
An accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.