Prices and profitability in early nineteenth-century West African trade
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20051491 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Colin Newbury (corresponding author), Colin W Newbury |
| Year | 2018 |
| Pages | 91-106 |
| Publication date | 2018-09-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | Development of Indigenous Trade and Markets in West Africa (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.4324/9780429487552-3 |
| OpenAlex | W2923822436 |
| ISBN | 9780429487552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
Probably no other factor in West African history is taken quite so much for granted as the growth of trade in tropical staples. Yet, since the appearance of Allan McPhee's classic work on the 'Revolution' in West African markets, there has been little attempt to explore the modalities of commercial operations at the period of transition from sale of slaves to sale of vegetable cash-crops. The primary effect of increased West African trade was to multiply the number of shore and river factories available as bulking centres. More information is needed on quantities and freights to determine how much small firms and partnerships were making. In the case of the gum merchants, more seems to have come from the monopoly sale of guinees than from the sale of exports. It has been argued elsewhere that the rapid expansion of West African trade in the nineteenth century on the coast paralleled a lesser expansion of exchanges across the traditional desert routes
Economics · Profitability index · African history and culture studies · History · Finance
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,05 |
| Citation span | 1970 - 1985 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |