Africa's Discovery of Europe

Name: Africa's Discovery of Europe
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ISBN: 9780199941216

ISBN-10: 0199941211

ISBN-13: 9780199941216

Edition: 3rd 2013

Authors: David Northrup

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This groundbreaking book examines the full range of African-European encounters from an unfamiliar African perspective rather than from the customary European one. By featuring vivid life stories of individual Africans and drawing upon their many recorded sentiments, David Northrup presentsAfrican perspectives that persuasively challenge stereotypes about African-European relations as they unfolded in Africa, Europe, and the Atlantic world between 1450 and 1850. The text features thematically organized chapters that explore first impressions, religion and politics, commerce and culture, imported goods and technology, the Middle Passage, and Africans in Europe. In addition, Northrup offers a…

Book details

List price: $69.99
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 4/9/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 9.10" wide x 6.10" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



List of Voices, Illustrations and Maps


Preface



First Sights-Lasting Impressions


Elite Africans in Europe to 1650


Enslaved Africans in Europe


Discovering Europeans in Africa


Southeast Africa, 1589-1635


Kongo Cosmology



Politics and Religion


The Meanings of Religious Conversion


Benin and Warri


The Kingdom of Kongo


Swahili and Mutapa


Ethiopia


Conclusion



Commerce and Culture


African Trading Strategies


The Eighteenth Century


Language, Trade, and Culture


Sexual Encounters


Conclusion



Atlantic Imports and Technology


Evaluating Inland Trade


Textiles and Metals


Tobacco and Distilled Spirits


Guns and Politics


Economic and Social Consequences



Africans in Europe, 1650-1850


African Delegates and Students


Servants High and Low in Continental Europe


Anglo-Africans


Scholars and Churchmen


Conclusion



Passages in Slavery


Capture in Africa


The Middle Passage


New Identities


Creolization


Africanization


Conclusion


Epilogue: Trends after 1850


Commerce


Culture


Identity


Index