african agency, consumer demand and the making of the global economy, 1750-1850 /
Kazuo Kobayashi.
Cham :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2019.
1 online resource
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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
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
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
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'A much-needed, excellently researched history of Senegambia's non-slave trade role in global commerce, centred on the south-south trade in Indian cloths facilitated by both the French and British empires ... The scholarship is of the highest quality.' -- Bronwen Everill, Gonville & Caius College, University of Cambridge, UK This book focuses on the significant role of West African consumers in the development of the global economy. It explores their demand for Indian cotton textiles and how their consumption shaped patterns of global trade, influencing economies and businesses from Western Europe to South Asia. In turn, the book examines how cotton textile production in southern India responded to this demand. Through this perspective of a south-south economic history, the study foregrounds African agency and considers the lasting impact on production and exports in South Asia. It also considers how European commercial and imperial expansion provided a complex web of networks, linking West African consumers and Indian weavers. Crucially, it demonstrates the emergence of the modern global economy.--