Africa's discovery of Europe : 1450-1850 /
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| Author / Creator: | Northrup, David, 1941- |
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. |
| Description: | xii, 208 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7358931 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Maps and Illustrations
- Preface
- Chapter 1. First Sights-Lasting Impressions
- Elite Africans in Europe to 1650
- Enslaved Africans in Europe
- Discovering Europeans in Africa
- Southeast Africa, 1589-1635
- Kongo Cosmology
- Chapter 2. Politics and Religion
- The Meanings of Religious Conversion
- Benin and Warri
- The Kingdom of Kongo
- Swahili and Mutapa
- Ethiopia
- Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Commerce and Culture
- African Trading Strategies
- The Eighteenth Century
- Language, Trade, and Culture
- Sexual Encounters
- Conclusion
- Chapter 4. Atlantic Imports and Technology
- Evaluating Inland Trade
- Textiles and Metals
- Tobacco and Distilled Spirits
- Guns and Politics
- Economic and Social Consequences
- Chapter 5. Africans in Europe, 1650-1850
- African Delegates and Students
- Servants High and Low in Continental Europe
- Anglo-Africans
- Scholars and Churchmen
- Conclusion
- Chapter 6. Passages in Slavery
- Capture in Africa
- The Middle Passage
- New Identities
- Creolization
- Africanization
- Conclusion
- Epilogue: Trends after 1850
- Index
