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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Note on Spellings/Names
Introduction
Part One: CAUSES: ECONOMIC DIVERGENCE IN WEST AND WEST-CENTRAL AFRICA
Timelines for Part One
1: ‘Three Measures of Gold’: The Rise and Fall of the Great Empires of the Sahel
2: Causeways across the Savannah: From Senegambia to Sierra Leone
3: Ready Money: The Gold Coast and the Gold Trade
4: Rivers of Cloth, Masks of Bronze: The Bights of Benin and Biafra
5: The Kingdom of Kongo: From Majesty to Revolt Coda to Part One
Coda to Part One
Part Two: CONSEQUENCES: POLITICS, BELIEF AND REVOLUTIONS FROM BELOW
Timeline for Part Two: West African Political History, c. 1680–1850
Prologue to Part Two
6: ‘With Boots Worth 3 Slaves’: Slavery and Value in the Eighteenth Century
7: On a War Footing: The ‘Fiscal- Military State’ in West African Politics
8: Feeding Power: New Societies, New Worldviews
9: Transnational Africas, Struggle and the Rising of Modernity
10: Warrior Aristocracies and Pushback from Below
11: Let them Drink Rum! Islam, Revolution and the Aristocracy
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Glossary
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Copyright Page
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