Ivory and Slaves in East Central Africa: Changing Pattern of International Trade in East Central Africa to the Later Nineteenth Century

by Edward A. Alpers

Book Overview

Professor Shepperson says of this regional economic history of East Central Africa that it is a "refreshing combination of a scholarly survey of a relatively new field of African history and of a contribution to an important controversy on African underdevelopment." Alpers has written a history of the penetration and changing character of international trade in East Central Africa from the fifteenth to the later nineteenth century. His study focuses...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520358732
• ISBN13: 9780520358737
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"