Africa's Discovery of Europe 1450-1850
Second Edition
ISBN13: 9780195340532ISBN10: 0195340531
Paperback, 224 pages
Jun 2008,
In Stock
Retail Price to Students:
$34.95 (04)
224 pages;
21 illus.;
6 1/8 X 9 1/4;
ISBN13: 978-0-19-534053-2ISBN10: 0-19-534053-1
Now in new edition, this is the first book to look at European-African interactions from an African perspective.
Table of Contents
Chapter One: 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 Two: Politics and Religion
The Meanings of Religious Conversion
Benin and Warri
The Kingdom of Kongo
Swahili and Mutapa
Ethiopia
Conclusion
Chapter Three: Commerce and Culture
African Trading Strategies
The Eighteenth Century
Language, Trade, and Culture
Sexual Encounters
Conclusion
Chapter Four: Atlantic Imports and Technology
Evaluating Inland Trade
Textiles and Metals
Tobacco and Distilled Spirits
Guns and Politics
Economic and Social Consequences
Chapter Five: Africans in Europe, 1650-1850
African Delegates and Students
Servants High and Low in Continental Europe
Anglo-Africans
Scholars and Churchmen
Conclusion
Chapter Six: Passages in Slavery
Capture in Africa
The Middle Passage
New Identities
Creolization
Africanization
Conclusion
