Interregional Monetary Flows in the Precolonial Trade of Nigeria
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 8980360 |
|---|---|
| Autores | P E Lovejoy (0000-0002-3359-2212, Ahmadu Bello University, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 1974 |
| Volumen | 15 |
| Número | 4 |
| Páginas | 563-585 |
| Fecha de publicación | 1974-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | Sí |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | The Journal of African History (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 0021-8537 • E-ISSN: 1469-5138 |
| Editorial | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0021853700013888 |
| OpenAlex | W2044928275 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 46 |
| Referencias citadas | 26 |
Only recently have historians devoted much attention to monetary developments in African history, primarily because the substantivist school of economic anthropology, which has argued that so-called western economic theory does not apply to African situations, has dominated the field. This view has been increasingly under attack in recent years, particularly by a new group of economic historians who have found many aspects of formal economic theory useful in the reconstruction of Africa's past. Marion Johnson's pioneering work on the gold mithqal and cowrie shell, for example, has documented the spread of a common currency over much of West Africa, throughout an area encompassed by Lake Chad in the east, the upper reaches of the Senegambia in the west, the southern Sahara in the north, and the region between the Volta basin and the Niger Delta in the south. The study of other currencies, including the copper rod standard of the Cross River basin in Nigeria and Cameroons, and the cloth money of the Senegambia, has demonstrated the importance of other standards besides cowries and gold, so that it is now known that virtually all of precolonial West Africa had economies sufficiently developed to require the use of circulating mediums of exchange and units of account. This breakthrough raises a number of important questions which seriously challenge, if not completely undermine, the predominant view that Africa's past, down to very recent times, has been subsistence oriented, non-market directed, and basically static
Agriculture · Archaeology · Atlantic slave trade · Currency · Development economics · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Ethnology · Geography · Sierra leone · Structural basin · Subsistence agriculture · Unit of account · African history and culture studies · African studies and sociopolitical issues · Geology · History
Atlantic trade and the West African market economy
An Indigenous Capitalism?
Economic Production and Exchange of States and Societies in Precolonial Nigeria
From Venice to East Africa
Angola and Mozambique, 1870–1905
East Africa 1870–1905
Evolving institutions of trust
French Congo and Gabon 1886–1905
Africa on the Eve of Partition
Western Africa, 1870–1886
Western Africa, 1886–1905
North Africa
Madagascar and France, 1870–1905
The European Partition of Africa
The European Scramble and Conquest in African History
King Leopold's Congo, 1886–1908
Indigenous Financial Management Practices in Africa
Small Change
The Cambridge History of Africa
Women and trade in the Nupe–Borgu region during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Accounting in the Central Sudan in the Early Nineteenth Century
Das "mercadorias-moedas" aos empréstimos para o Covid
Africa and the Price Revolution
Of glass, stone, shell, and metal
The Challenge of Studying Inflation in Precolonial Africa
The Challenge of Studying Inflation in Precolonial Africa by Klas Rönnbäck – A Response
Cataloging Cowries
A new money supply series for West Africa in the era of the slave trade
A ‘supply‐side’ aspect of the African slave trade
The Handbook of Economic Sociology
Women's Work and Women's Property
The Role of Technology in the African past
Concubinage in the Sokoto caliphate (1804–1903)
Factor markets in Nieboer conditions
Exploring the Role of Trade and Migrations in Nigeria-Ghana Relations in the Pre-Colonial and Colonial Periods
Ring-Around-the-Rosie Atlantic
Cowrie Shells, Global Trade, and Local Exchange
Credit, Currencies, and Culture
The Relevance of Spatial Analysis for African Economic History
Plantations in the Economy of the Sokoto Caliphate
The Role of the Wangara in the Economic Transformation of the Central Sudan in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries
New perspectives on West African women
Cowries in the archaeology of West Africa
Relações comerciais e diplomáticas Anglo-africanas durante a expedição ao Níger de 1854
Farmers, traders, and labourers
Domestic labor intensity and the Incorporation of Malian peasant farmers into localized descent groups
Man in Africa.
Travels and Discoveries in North and Central Africa
Journal of a residence in Ashantee
The Atlantic Slave Trade
The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger
Narrative of Travels and Discoveries in Northern and Central Africa
African Merchants in the Colonial Period
The Cowrie Currencies of West Africa
The Kambarin Beriberi
The growth of trade among the Igbo before 1880
The constitutional troubles of Ọyọ in the eighteenth century
Population density and ‘slave raiding’—The case of the middle belt of Nigeria
Native and Trade Currencies in Southern Nigeria during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries
The Gospel on the Banks of the Niger
Currency, Credit and Capitalism on the Cross River in the pre-colonial era
Economic Man
Economic Change in Pre-Colonial Africa
The Sokoto Caliphate Slave Trade in the Nineteenth Century
Materials Relating To The Cowry Currencyof The Western Sudan-I
An Economic History of West Africa
Government in Zazzau
Aspects of the Ashanti Northern Trade in the Nineteenth Century
The Financing of the Ashanti Expansion (1700-1820)
| Obras citantes distintas | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citas por año | 0,92 |
| Intervalo de citas | 1976 - 2026 (51) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 45 |