A. G. Hopkins (2020) - An Economic History of West Africa

Authors

  • Cassandra Mark-Thiesen

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51185/journals/rhca.2021.e513

Keywords:

commerce, historiographie, économie, histoire économique

Abstract

Critical review: A. G. Hopkins, An Economic History of West Africa, London and  New-York, Palgrave, 2020, 416 p., second edition.

References

AUSTIN Gareth (2009), « Cash Crops and Freedom: Export Agriculture and the Decline of Slavery in Colonial West Africa », International Review of Social History 54(1), p. 1–37

GARDNER Leigh (2013), Taxing Colonial Africa: The Political Economy of British Imperialism, Oxford, Oxford University Press.

HILL Polly (1997), The Migrant Cocoa-Farmers of Southern Ghana: A Study in Rural Capitalism, Münster, LIT Verlag.

HOPKINS A. G. (2009), « The New Economic History of Africa », The Journal of African History 50(2): 157.

LAW Robin (2002), From Slave Trade to “Legitimate” Commerce: The Commercial Transition in Nineteenth-Century West Africa, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.

TIQUET Romain (2019), Travail forcé et mobilisation de la main-d’oeuvre au Sénégal : années 1920-1960, Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes.

VAN WAIJENBURG Marlous (2018), « Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labor », Journal of Economic History 78(1), p. 40–80.

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Published

2021-07-01

How to Cite

Mark-Thiesen, Cassandra. 2021. “A. G. Hopkins (2020) - An Economic History of West Africa”. Revue d’histoire Contemporaine De l’Afrique, no. 8 (July). https://doi.org/10.51185/journals/rhca.2021.e513.

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