Africa's Discovery of Europe 1450-1850

Name: Africa's Discovery of Europe 1450-1850
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ISBN: 9780195140842

ISBN-10: 0195140842

ISBN-13: 9780195140842

Edition: 2002

Authors: David Northrup

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Interest in African history has been growing rapidly in recent years. The encounters between Europeans and Sub-Saharan Africans--which first began to intensify during the 15th century--are currently a popular area of study. Up to now, however, only the Europeans viewpoint of these encounters has been explored. David Northrup's Africa's Discovery of Europe remedies this imbalance. Northrup explores the African side of this cultural collision as it unfolded in Africa, Europe, and the Atlantic world between 1450 and 1850. The text is organized thematically, with chapters devoted to first impressions, religion and politics, commerce and culture, imported goods and technology, the Middle…

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List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/4/2002
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 9.09" wide x 5.98" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Preface



First Sights - Lasting Impressions


Elite Africans in Europe to 1650


Enslaved Africans in Europe to 1650


Discovering Europeans in Africa


Southeast Africa, 1589-1635


Kongo Cosmology



Politics and Religion


Meanings of Religious Conversion


Benin and Warri


The Kingdom of Kongo


Swahili and Mutapa


Ethiopia


Conclusions



Commerce and Culture


African Trading Strategies


The Eighteenth Century


Language, Trade, and Culture


Sexual Encounters


Conclusion



Material Goods and Technology


Evaluating Inland Trade


Textiles and Metals


Tobacco and Distilled Spirits


Guns and Politics


Economic and Social Consequences



Passages in Slavery


Capture in Africa


The Middle Passage


New Identities


Creolization


Africanization


Conclusion



Africans in Europe, 1650-1850


African Delegates and Students


Servants of High and Low in Continental Europe


Anglo-Africans


Scholars and Churchmen


Concluding Observations


Epilogue