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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1 Introduction; Rethinking African Agency in Global History; Indian Cotton Textiles in the Pre-industrial World; South-South Economic History; Sources; Organisation of the Book; Conclusion; Chapter 2 West African Seaborne Trade, 1750-1850: The Transition from the Transatlantic Slave Trade to 'Legitimate' Commerce; The Transatlantic Slave Trade and Jihad in West Africa, 1750-1850; Exports from West Africa in the Early Nineteenth Century; Palm Oil; Gum Arabic; Groundnuts; Imports into West Africa; Cotton Textiles
CowriesConclusion; Chapter 3 Guinées in the Lower Senegal River: A Consumer-Led Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century; What Is a Piece of Guinée?; Why Did West African Consumers Prefer Indian Guinées?; Commercial Networks in the Lower Senegal River; Between France and Saint Louis; Between Saint Louis and Three Escales; Gum Harvesting in the Senegal River Valley; Guinées as a Currency; West African Early Textile Production, Trade and Consumption; Textiles as Money in Precolonial West Africa; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Procurement of Indian Textiles for West Africa, 1750-1850
Rethinking the Procurement of Indian TextilesEnglish Investment in Textile Production in South India; Geographical Distribution of the Production of Cotton in South India; A Network of Intermediaries Between South India and Britain; The Advance System of the Late Eighteenth Century; The EIC in South India from the 1770s to the 1780s; Failure of the Aumany System in South India; After the British Withdrawal from the Atlantic Slave Trade; French Investment in Textile Production in Pondicherry; Rebuilding Under the Initiative of the French Government from 1816 to 1829
Pondicherry and the West African Market from 1829 to 1850Conclusion; Chapter 5 Western European Merchants and West Africa, 1750-1850: Continuity and Change; British Merchants and West Africa; French Merchants and West Africa; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century West Africa; Africa, Empire and Global History; Multiple Globalisation in the Emergence of the Modern Global Economy; Bibliography; Index
CowriesConclusion; Chapter 3 Guinées in the Lower Senegal River: A Consumer-Led Trade in the Early Nineteenth Century; What Is a Piece of Guinée?; Why Did West African Consumers Prefer Indian Guinées?; Commercial Networks in the Lower Senegal River; Between France and Saint Louis; Between Saint Louis and Three Escales; Gum Harvesting in the Senegal River Valley; Guinées as a Currency; West African Early Textile Production, Trade and Consumption; Textiles as Money in Precolonial West Africa; Conclusion; Chapter 4 Procurement of Indian Textiles for West Africa, 1750-1850
Rethinking the Procurement of Indian TextilesEnglish Investment in Textile Production in South India; Geographical Distribution of the Production of Cotton in South India; A Network of Intermediaries Between South India and Britain; The Advance System of the Late Eighteenth Century; The EIC in South India from the 1770s to the 1780s; Failure of the Aumany System in South India; After the British Withdrawal from the Atlantic Slave Trade; French Investment in Textile Production in Pondicherry; Rebuilding Under the Initiative of the French Government from 1816 to 1829
Pondicherry and the West African Market from 1829 to 1850Conclusion; Chapter 5 Western European Merchants and West Africa, 1750-1850: Continuity and Change; British Merchants and West Africa; French Merchants and West Africa; Conclusion; Chapter 6 Conclusion; Economic Development in Nineteenth-Century West Africa; Africa, Empire and Global History; Multiple Globalisation in the Emergence of the Modern Global Economy; Bibliography; Index