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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. Papers from a conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling. xi, 278 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm. Contents: Initial 'crisis of adaptation' : the impact of British abolition on the Atlantic slave trade in West Africa, 1808-1820 / Paul E. Lovejoy and David Richardson -- West African palm oil trade in the nineteenth century and the 'crisis of adaptation' / Martin Lynn -- Compatibility of the slave and palm oil trades in Dahomey, 1818-1858 / Elisée Soumonni -- Between abolition and Jihad : the Asante response to the ending of the Atlantic slave trade, 1807-1896 / Gareth Austin -- Plantations and labour in the south-east Gold Coast from the late eighteenth to the mid nineteenth century / Ray A. Kea -- Owners, slaves and the struggle for labour in the commercial transition at Lagos / t Kristin Mann -- Slaves, Igbo women and palm oil in the nineteenth century / Susan Martin -- 'Legitimate' trade and gender relations in Yorubaland and and Dahomey / Robin Law -- In search of a desert-edge perspective : the Sahara-Sahel and the Atlantic trade, c. 1815-1900 / E. Ann McDougall -- 'New international economic order' in the nineteenth century : Britain's first development plan for Africa / A.G. Hopkins. Inscribed by Author(s).…