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    A Fistful of shells : West Africa from the rise of the slave trade to the age of revolution / Toby Green.
    by Green, Toby, author.
    Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2019.
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    xxxv, 613 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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    Part one: Causes: economic divergence in West and West-Central Africa. "Three measures of gold": the rise and fall of the great empires of the Sahel -- Causeways across the savannah: from Senegambia to Sierra Leone -- Ready money: The Gold Coast and the gold trade -- Rivers of cloth, masks of bronze: the bights of Benin and Biafra -- The kingdom of Kongo: from majesty to revolt -- Part two: Consequences: politics, belief and revolutions from below -- "With boots worth 3 slaves": slavery and value in the eighteenth century -- On a war footing: the "fiscal-military state" in West African politics -- Feeding power: new societies, new worldviews -- Transnational Africas, struggle, and the rising of modernity -- Warrior aristocracies and pushback from below -- Let them drink rum! Islam, revolution and the aristocracy.
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