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L'Europe face au Sud : les relations avec le monde arabe et africain
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ISBN: 2738410138 9782738410139 Year: 1991 Publisher: Paris: L'Harmattan,


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Regards sur l'histoire : Histoire contemporaine
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ISSN: 09864636 07681283 ISBN: 2718136499 9782718136493 Volume: 95 Publisher: Paris Société d'Édition D'Enseignement Supérieur (SEDES)

L'Afrique et l'Europe : atlas du XXe siècle
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ISBN: 2870275188 9782870275184 Year: 1994 Volume: *1 Publisher: Bruxelles: Complexe,

Africa and Africans in the making of the Atlantic world, 1400-1800
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ISBN: 0521627249 0521622174 1139638440 1139648896 113964128X 0511800274 1139636340 1316087530 9781139643382 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press,

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This 1998 book explores Africa's involvement in the Atlantic world from the fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. It focuses especially on the causes and consequences of the slave trade, in Africa, in Europe, and in the New World. African institutions, political events, and economic structures shaped Africa's voluntary involvement in the Atlantic arena before 1680. Africa's economic and military strength gave African elites the capacity to determine how trade with Europe developed. Thornton examines the dynamics of colonization which made slaves so necessary to European colonizers, and he explains why African slaves were placed in roles of central significance. Estate structure and demography affected the capacity of slaves to form a self-sustaining society and behave as cultural actors, transferring and transforming African culture in the New World.

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