Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800
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African Armies
African Military History
African social organisation
Atlantic Africa
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coast
colonial intervention warfare
Dahomean Army
Dahomey's Army
Dahomey’s Army
Desert Nomads
ecological impact on conflict
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European arms trade
Flat Topped Mountain
Futa Jallon
Futa Tooro
gold
Gold Coast
guinea
gunpowder
Gunpowder Weapons
heavy
Heavy Infantry
infantry
James Island
Kunta Kinte
Kwango River
Lagos Lagoon
late
military technology diffusion
missile
Missile Weapons
Niger Bend
Poisoned Arrows
Portuguese Army
Portuguese Forces
Runaway Communities
Sierra Leone Coast
slave trade dynamics
transatlantic slave trade warfare
upper
weapons
West Central Africa
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781857283921
- Weight: 460g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 26 Aug 1999
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Warfare in Atlantic Africa, 1500-1800 investigates the impact of warfare on the history of Africa in the period of the slave trade and the founding of empires.
It includes the discussion of:
: * the relationship between war and the slave trade
* the role of Europeans in promoting African wars and supplying African armies
* the influence of climatic and ecological factors on warfare patterns and dynamics
* the impact of social organization and military technology, including the gunpowder revolution
* case studies of warfare in Sierra Leone, the Gold Coast, Benin and West Central Africa
John K. Thornton is Professor of History at Millersville University, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400-1800 (Cambridge, 1998).
