Slavery, colonialism, and economic growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960 /

"The author has pieced together an extensive body of new evidence and new interpretations: he has combined descriptive evidence with quantitative data on foreign trade, slave demography and colonial government finance, and has relied on both Marxian and Neoclassical techniques of economic analy...

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Main Author: Manning, Patrick, 1941-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1982
Cambridge ; New York : 1982
Cambridge ; New York : 1982
Series:African studies series ; 30
African studies series 30
African studies series ; 30
African studies series 30
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Table of Contents:
  • Slavery, colonialism and economic growth, 1640-1960
  • The Dahomean economy, 1640-1890
  • Struggles with the gods: economic life in the 1880s
  • Production, 1890-1914
  • Demand, 1890-1914
  • Exchange, 1890-1914
  • The alien state, 1890-1914
  • Social struggles for economic ends, 1890-1914
  • The mechanism of accumulation
  • Capitalism and colonialism, 1915-60
  • The Dahomean national movement
  • Epilogue