Marion Johnson
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3586064 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Marion Johnson |
| NOMBRES | Marion |
| APELLIDO | Johnson |
| FIRMA | JOHNSON M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2394-4197 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 50 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 349 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 50 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1965 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa
The cowrie shells of West African commerce have been almost exclusively the shells of Cypraea moneta and Cypraea annulus, both Indian Ocean species, the former from the Maldive Islands, the latter from the East African coast and islands, especially Zanzibar and the neighbouring islands. Shells of the species Cypraea moneta have been in use as money in various parts of the world for at least 1,000 years; they continued in use, on a limited scale, …
Consultation, referral and ethnicity
Young men of African‐Caribbean origin are over‐represented in mental health services (MHSs), often entering these services by coercive routes, such as under the Mental Health Act or via the criminal justice system. This pilot study focused on patients' narratives of their journey from first contact with primary care services. Our principal aim was to describe and compare early experiences of help‐seeking for serious mental health problems among y…
National Patient Safety Report
Africa
Shorter Notices
Shorter Notices Get access MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CV, Issue CCCCXV, April 1990, Page 554, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/CV.CCCCXV.554 Published: 01 April 1990
Evidence on English/African terms of trade in the eighteenth century
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
Expatriates in African Studies
Journal Article EXPATRIATES IN AFRICAN STUDIES Get access MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 88, Issue 350, January 1989, Pages 77–81, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098155 Published: 01 January 1989
An Index to Barbot's 1678-1679 “Journal”
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The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
Interesting Document, Dangerous Translation
Under the not very informative cover title of Munger Africana Library Notes 3 , the library of that name published in 1971 a group of four French documents, collectively called The Choiseul papers , secret documents prepared for the peace negotiations to end the Seven Years' War in 1762/63. There is no indication as to the original authorship of these documents, except that the first, with a date of 6 January 1681, is noted as “sent on behalf of …
Salt of the Desert Sun
Journal Article Salt of the Desert Sun Get access Salt of the Desert Sun, by Paul E. Lovejoy. Cambridge University Press, 1986. xvi+351pp. £27.50. ISBN 0 521 30182 3. MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON Center of West African Studies, University of Brimingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 86, Issue 343, April 1987, Pages 283–284, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a097901 Publ…
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
This study examines the role of cowrie-shell money in West African trade, particularly the slave trade. The shells were carried from the Maldives to the Mediterranean by Arab traders for further transport across the Sahara, and to Europe by competing Portuguese, Dutch, English and French traders for onward transport to the West African coast. In Africa they served to purchase the slaves exported to the New World, as well as other less sinister ex…
The Slaves of Salaga
Salaga was one of the leading slave-markets of West Africa in the 1880s. The story of the slaves – where they came from, who brought them to Salaga, who bought them, and what happened to them afterwards – can be pieced together from the reports of a great variety of travellers, black and white, officials, soldiers, merchants and missionaries, of various nationalities, African and European. Thus, on the eve of the European occupation which put an …
Dar al-Kuti and the last years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Journal Article Dar al-Kuti and the last years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Get access Dar al-Kuti and the last years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade by Dennis D. Cordell. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1985. xvii + 283 pp. maps and tables. $35, ISBN 0 299 095207. MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Commodities, Customs, and the Computer
Among the various sources of information about the Africa of the Slave Trade era, one of the more voluminous and detailed is the great series of English Customs records held at the Public Record Office in London under CUST 3 and CUST 17. Each year's records are contained in a gigantic ledger. Those up to 1780, in the CUST 3 series, are organized entirely under countries, of which the whole of Africa counts as one (though each West Indian island i…
Slavery, Colonialism, and Economic Growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960
A new money supply series for West Africa in the era of the slave trade
(1982). A new money supply series for West Africa in the era of the slave trade: The import of the cowrie shell from Europe. Slavery & Abolition: Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 153-162
Caravans of Kola
The West African Ivory Trade during the Eighteenth Century
Harvey M. Feinberg, Marion Johnson, The West African Ivory Trade during the Eighteenth Century: The "... and Ivory" Complex, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3 (1982), pp. 435-453
The European Cowrie Trade
Cloth on the banks of the Niger
The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa Part I
This part of the paper deals with the cowrie shells and their import into West Africa, and the cost of their transport in West Africa; with the cowrie currency area and its changes; with the oddities of cowrie arithmetic; and with the final decline of the cowrie currency. A second part will deal with the value of cowries at various times and places, and with cowrie economics
The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa
The cowrie shells of West African commerce have been almost exclusively the shells of Cypraea moneta and Cypraea annulus, both Indian Ocean species, the former from the Maldive Islands, the latter from the East African coast and islands, especially Zanzibar and the neighbouring islands. Shells of the species Cypraea moneta have been in use as money in various parts of the world for at least 1,000 years; they continued in use, on a limited scale, …
The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa Part II
This second part of a study of cowrie currencies in West Africa deals with the value of cowries from the fourteenth century in various parts of West Africa, in terms of gold and silver, and currencies based on these, and also in terms of commodities. An attempt has been made to use this information to throw light on such problems as the effects of the slave-trade on the economy of West Africa, and also on the extent of the internal exchange econo…
Cotton Imperialism in West Africa
Journal Article COTTON IMPERIALISM IN WEST AFRICA Get access MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 291, April 1974, Pages 178–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096466 Published: 01 April 1974
Calico Caravans
It has often been thought that desert caravans could carry only luxury goods, and that the trans-Saharan caravans had declined rapidly in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and had virtually disappeared by the turn of the century. This paper traces the caravan trade between Tripoli and Kano for the 30 years after 1881, when the main import into Hausaland was low-value unbleached and bleached calico from Manchester. It is suggested that c…
The Ounce in Eighteenth-Century West African Trade
The Ounce as a unit in the West African trade was originally applied to the goods which could be exchanged on the Gold Coast for one ounce of gold; it was generally reckoned that such goods would cost about 40 s. in Europe, or half the European value of the gold. Calculations based on actual transactions show that the prime cost of an Ounce of goods was sometimes lower than this, when a favourable assortment of goods had been chosen. In the 1760'…
By Ship or by Camel
Ivory appears to have gone to the Cameroun coast in considerable quantity in the early nineteenth century, while little was being carried across the desert. By the middle of the century this position had been reversed. This paper traces the penetration of Hausa ivory traders to Adamawa and the southern ivory markets, and the subsequent struggle by European firms with posts on the Niger and the Benue to divert the trade back to the sea-borne route…
The Economic Foundations of an Islamic Theocracy—The Case of Masina
This paper is an attempt to study the economic foundations of one African state; Masina in the interior delta of the Niger south of Timbuctu, a short lived jihad state of the nineteenth century, has been chosen because it is relatively well-documented, literate, and followed an established pattern of Islamic taxation. Some attention is paid to the special needs of public expenditure in an Islamic theocracy; the system of taxation is examined, and…
Slaves from the Windward Coast
The ‘Windward Coast’ between Cape Mount and Assini (modern Liberia and Ivory Coast) is credited by Curtin with the export of very large numbers of slaves in the late seventeenth century and most of the eighteenth, but with hardly any in the nineteenth. It is suggested here that the actual figures for the earlier period are much lower, many of those slaves attributed to this stretch of coast in the English trade having come from the region Curtin …
The Nineteenth-Century Gold ‘Mithqal’ in West and North Africa
One of the units in which prices and exchange-rates are expressed by nineteenth-century travellers is the gold mithqal . This paper is an attempt to discover, and if possible to make some sense of, the various values of the gold mithqal at different times and places in West and North Africa during the nineteenth century
The West African Ivory Trade during the Eighteenth Century
Harvey M. Feinberg, Marion Johnson, The West African Ivory Trade during the Eighteenth Century: The "... and Ivory" Complex, The International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 15, No. 3 (1982), pp. 435-453
The Slaves of Salaga
Salaga was one of the leading slave-markets of West Africa in the 1880s. The story of the slaves – where they came from, who brought them to Salaga, who bought them, and what happened to them afterwards – can be pieced together from the reports of a great variety of travellers, black and white, officials, soldiers, merchants and missionaries, of various nationalities, African and European. Thus, on the eve of the European occupation which put an …
Polanyi, Peukert and the political economy of Dahomey
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Evidence on English/African terms of trade in the eighteenth century
Agaja and the Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade in its various manifestations has never lacked scholarly attention, be it disinterested or selfish. The major focus has often been on the motivations and roles of those who participated in the trade other than as victims. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, interest tended to be confined either to the apologists for the trade or to its critics; but in recent years, the matter has not failed to engage the attention…
West African Food in the Middle Ages, According to the Arabic Sources
It is important for historians studying West Africa before the sixteenth century, particularly social and economic historians, to know what the basic foods were before the arrival of crops from the Americas such as maize, cassava, ground nuts, red peppers and tomatoes. Medieval Arabic historians and geographers recorded a great deal of information about social and economic life in Africa during the period and this is a full-scale attempt to make …
Caravans of Kola
Bulfinch Lambe and the Emperor of Pawpaw
In “Agaja and the Slave Trade” it was argued that the evidence cited to support Akinjogbin's view of Agaja's attitude to the slave trade did not in fact give any support to his view. Particular reference was made to Bulfinch Lambe, whose “Proposal” was quoted by Atkins in support of his interpretation of Agaja's motives for the conquest of Whydah –– the only contemporary to give an interpretation in line with Akinjogbin's. Atkins was not on the c…
Ashanti Craft Organization
News from Nowhere
By his own account, John Duncan was born in 1805 on a farm in southwest Scotland and enlisted in the Life Guards at the age of seventeen. He obtained his discharge in 1839 and was appointed master-at-arms to the Niger Expedition of 1841. In the course of this, while aiding his men at the Cape Verde Islands, he received a leg wound which became so serious that amputation was contemplated, and he was left with a permanent weakness in the leg. Despi…
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
The Shell Money of the Slave Trade
Dar al-Kuti and the last years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade
Journal Article Dar al-Kuti and the last years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade Get access Dar al-Kuti and the last years of the Trans-Saharan Slave Trade by Dennis D. Cordell. University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, Wisconsin, 1985. xvii + 283 pp. maps and tables. $35, ISBN 0 299 095207. MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
Commodities, Customs, and the Computer
Among the various sources of information about the Africa of the Slave Trade era, one of the more voluminous and detailed is the great series of English Customs records held at the Public Record Office in London under CUST 3 and CUST 17. Each year's records are contained in a gigantic ledger. Those up to 1780, in the CUST 3 series, are organized entirely under countries, of which the whole of Africa counts as one (though each West Indian island i…
Indigenes or Invaders
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The Ounce in Eighteenth-Century West African Trade
The Ounce as a unit in the West African trade was originally applied to the goods which could be exchanged on the Gold Coast for one ounce of gold; it was generally reckoned that such goods would cost about 40 s. in Europe, or half the European value of the gold. Calculations based on actual transactions show that the prime cost of an Ounce of goods was sometimes lower than this, when a favourable assortment of goods had been chosen. In the 1760'…
The Nineteenth-Century Gold ‘Mithqal’ in West and North Africa
One of the units in which prices and exchange-rates are expressed by nineteenth-century travellers is the gold mithqal . This paper is an attempt to discover, and if possible to make some sense of, the various values of the gold mithqal at different times and places in West and North Africa during the nineteenth century
The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa Part II
This second part of a study of cowrie currencies in West Africa deals with the value of cowries from the fourteenth century in various parts of West Africa, in terms of gold and silver, and currencies based on these, and also in terms of commodities. An attempt has been made to use this information to throw light on such problems as the effects of the slave-trade on the economy of West Africa, and also on the extent of the internal exchange econo…
The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa Part I
This part of the paper deals with the cowrie shells and their import into West Africa, and the cost of their transport in West Africa; with the cowrie currency area and its changes; with the oddities of cowrie arithmetic; and with the final decline of the cowrie currency. A second part will deal with the value of cowries at various times and places, and with cowrie economics
News from Nowhere
By his own account, John Duncan was born in 1805 on a farm in southwest Scotland and enlisted in the Life Guards at the age of seventeen. He obtained his discharge in 1839 and was appointed master-at-arms to the Niger Expedition of 1841. In the course of this, while aiding his men at the Cape Verde Islands, he received a leg wound which became so serious that amputation was contemplated, and he was left with a permanent weakness in the leg. Despi…
Cotton Imperialism in West Africa
Journal Article COTTON IMPERIALISM IN WEST AFRICA Get access MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 73, Issue 291, April 1974, Pages 178–187, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096466 Published: 01 April 1974
Brigitte Menzel
Brigitte Menzel: Textilien aus Westafrika. (Veröffentlichungen des Museums für Völkerkunde. Berlin. Neue Folge, 26–8, Abteilung Afrika, VI–VIII.) 3 vols., unpaginated. Berlin: Museum für Völkerkunde, [1972–1973]. - Volume 38 Issue 1
An economic history of Nigeria, 1860–1960
Journal Article An economic history of Nigeria, 1860–1960 Get access An economic history of Nigeria, 1860–1960, by R. Olufemi Ekundare. Methuen, 1973. 485pp. Maps, figures and tables. £3.80; paperback £1.90. MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 74, Issue 297, October 1975, Pages 493–494, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a…
West African Food in the Middle Ages
West African Food in the Middle Ages, According to the Arabic Sources
It is important for historians studying West Africa before the sixteenth century, particularly social and economic historians, to know what the basic foods were before the arrival of crops from the Americas such as maize, cassava, ground nuts, red peppers and tomatoes. Medieval Arabic historians and geographers recorded a great deal of information about social and economic life in Africa during the period and this is a full-scale attempt to make …
Agaja and the Slave Trade
The Atlantic slave trade in its various manifestations has never lacked scholarly attention, be it disinterested or selfish. The major focus has often been on the motivations and roles of those who participated in the trade other than as victims. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, interest tended to be confined either to the apologists for the trade or to its critics; but in recent years, the matter has not failed to engage the attention…
The Economic Foundations of an Islamic Theocracy—The Case of Masina
This paper is an attempt to study the economic foundations of one African state; Masina in the interior delta of the Niger south of Timbuctu, a short lived jihad state of the nineteenth century, has been chosen because it is relatively well-documented, literate, and followed an established pattern of Islamic taxation. Some attention is paid to the special needs of public expenditure in an Islamic theocracy; the system of taxation is examined, and…
Calico Caravans
It has often been thought that desert caravans could carry only luxury goods, and that the trans-Saharan caravans had declined rapidly in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, and had virtually disappeared by the turn of the century. This paper traces the caravan trade between Tripoli and Kano for the 30 years after 1881, when the main import into Hausaland was low-value unbleached and bleached calico from Manchester. It is suggested that c…
The Nigerian Oil Palm Industry
Journal Article The Nigerian Oil Palm Industry Get access The Nigerian Oil Palm Industry, by Eno J. Usoro. Ibadan University Press, 1974. 153pp. Tables. N7.00; paperback N3.50. MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar African Affairs, Volume 75, Issue 300, July 1976, Page 398, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a096756…
Livres/Books
Bulfinch Lambe and the Emperor of Pawpaw
In “Agaja and the Slave Trade” it was argued that the evidence cited to support Akinjogbin's view of Agaja's attitude to the slave trade did not in fact give any support to his view. Particular reference was made to Bulfinch Lambe, whose “Proposal” was quoted by Atkins in support of his interpretation of Agaja's motives for the conquest of Whydah –– the only contemporary to give an interpretation in line with Akinjogbin's. Atkins was not on the c…
By Ship or by Camel
Ivory appears to have gone to the Cameroun coast in considerable quantity in the early nineteenth century, while little was being carried across the desert. By the middle of the century this position had been reversed. This paper traces the penetration of Hausa ivory traders to Adamawa and the southern ivory markets, and the subsequent struggle by European firms with posts on the Niger and the Benue to divert the trade back to the sea-borne route…
Contemporary African Arts and Crafts
Journal Article Contemporary African Arts and Crafts: on-site working with art forms and processes Get access Contemporary African Arts and Crafts: on-site working with art forms and processes, by Thelma R. Newman, George Allen Unwin, 1974. £5·95. African Arts in Motion, by Robert Farris Thompson. University of California Press, 1974. £11·00. MARION JOHNSON MARION JOHNSON Centre for West African Studies, University of Birmingham Search for other …
On Writing African History Prematurely / De l'histoire africaine écrite prématurément
Ashanti Craft Organization
African Historiography Written by Africans, 1955-1973
In the first part of this essay the development of the study of African history is sketched, and the historical studies written by professional African historians from 1955 to 1972-3 are analysed. Special attention is paid to the manisfestoes of the 1960s, programmatical declarations of what African history should be and how it should be written. Part two traces in detail what historical studis were actually produced in the fifteen years that fol…
Polanyi, Peukert and the political economy of Dahomey
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Slaves from the Windward Coast
The ‘Windward Coast’ between Cape Mount and Assini (modern Liberia and Ivory Coast) is credited by Curtin with the export of very large numbers of slaves in the late seventeenth century and most of the eighteenth, but with hardly any in the nineteenth. It is suggested here that the actual figures for the earlier period are much lower, many of those slaves attributed to this stretch of coast in the English trade having come from the region Curtin …
The European Cowrie Trade
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