Childs, Matt D.

Falola, Toyin

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African Diaspora Archaeology NewsletterVolume 12Issue 1 March 2009 Article 213-1-2009The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays inHonor of Robin LawToyin FalolaUniversity of Texas at Austin, toyin.falola@mail.utexas.eduMatt D. ChildsUniversity of South Carolina, childsmd@mailbox.sc.eduFollow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adanThis New Books is brought to you for free and open access by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. It has been accepted for inclusion in African DiasporaArchaeology Newsletter by an authorized editor of ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst. For more information, please contactscholarworks@library.umass.edu.Recommended CitationFalola, Toyin and Childs, Matt D. (2009) "The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays in Honor of Robin Law," African DiasporaArchaeology Newsletter: Vol. 12 : Iss. 1 , Article 21.Available at: https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adan/vol12/iss1/21New Book The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays in Honor of Robin Law Edited by Toyin Falola and Matt D. Childs Carolina Academic Press, 536 pp., ISBN-13: 978-1594605949, March 2009.  Description from the Publisher:  Robin Law represents the best of the generation that emerged during one of the most eventful and exciting periods in African history and historiography. This book offers an assessment of his scholarship, most notably as an historian of Africa his work in pre-colonial West African history, his methodological approaches to African history; his scholarship on transatlantic slavery in particular; and his work on diasporic topics and the study of changing identities produced by Atlantic slavery. The book supplies an ongoing dialogue with the waves of scholarship stimulated by the work of Robin Law, by a remarkable cast of scholars who occupy the leading role in their areas of specialization.  Contents include: Part I, Empires, Politics, and Power; Chapter 1 Empires and Their Peripheries: A Case of Oyo and the Northern Yoruba, Aribidesi Usman; Chapter 2 The Economic Significance of Inland Coastal Fishing in Seventeenth-Century Lagos, Sandra T. Barnes; Chapter 3 Trade and Polity in East Africa: Re-Examining Elite Strategies for Acquiring Power, Chapurukha M. Kusimba and Rahul C. Oka; Chapter 4 The Lessons of the Rawlinson Correspondence, David Henige; Chapter 5 The Rumor of the Human Sacrifice of Two Hundred Girls by Asantehene [King] Mensa Bonsu in 1881�82 and its Consequent Colonial Policy Implications and African Responses, Kwabena O. Akurang-Parry; Chapter 6 Colonial Environment Policies, Subsistence Strategies and Regional Politics in the Middle Senegal Valley, Alioune Deme; Part II, Commercial Transitions in West Africa; Chapter 7 The State as Help or Hindrance to Market-Led Economic Growth:West Africa in the Era of "Legitimate Commerce", Gareth Austin; Chapter 8 The Economic Impact of the 1807 British Abolition of the Transatlantic Slave Trade, Joseph E. Inikori; Chapter 9 British Abolitionist Policy on the Ground in West Africa in the Mid-Nineteenth Century, Silke Strickrodt Chapter 10 A Lagos Merchant and His Money: I. B.Williams, 1846�1925, A. G. Hopkins; Part III, Slavery and the Atlantic Slave Trade; Chapter 11 From a Port of the Slave Trade to an Urban Community: Robin Law and the History of Ouidah, Elisée Soumonni; Chapter 12 From "Constitutional" and "Northern" Factors to Ethnic/Slave Uprising: Ile-Ife, 1800�1854, Olatunji Ojo; Chapter 13 Transatlantic Slave Trade and Endogenous Technological Backwardness in the Bight of 1Falola and Childs: The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays in Honor of RobinPublished by ScholarWorks@UMass Amherst, 2009Benin Region: An Archaeological Consideration, Obarè Bagodo; Chapter 14 In the Chains of the Past: The Transatlantic Slave Trade in Ghanaian Historiography, Ella Keren; Chapter 15 From Obscurity to Notoriety: Cuban Slave Merchants, and the Atlantic World, José Guadalupe Ortega; Part IV, Atlantic Identities: West African and the Diaspora; Chapter 16 The Kings of Dahomey and the Invention of Ancestral Asen, Edna G. Bay; Chapter 17 The Hula "Problem": Ethnicity on the Pre-Colonial Slave Coast, Luis Nicolau Parés; Chapter 18 Diasporan Voices of the African Past: James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, Quobna Ottobah Cugoano, Olaudah Equiano, and Ignatius Sancho as Sources of African History, Maurice Jackson; Chapter 19 Speculations on the African Origins of Venture Smith, Paul E. Lovejoy; Chapter 20 Domingos Pereira Sodré, a Nagô Priest in Nineteenth-Century Bahia, João José Reis; Part V, West Africa and the Challenges of the Twentieth Century; Chapter 21 Mules or Couriers: The Role of Nigerian Drug Couriers in the International Drug Trade, Axel Klein; Chapter 22 Shell-BP and the Nigerian Civil War, Phia Steyn; Chapter 23 Asante, Apagyafie and President Kufuor of Ghana: A Historical Interpretation, T.C. McCaskie; Chapter 24 After Slavery, What Next? Productive Relations in Early Twentieth-Century Krepe, and Beyond, Lynne Brydon. 2African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, Vol. 12 [2009], Iss. 1, Art. 21https://scholarworks.umass.edu/adan/vol12/iss1/21

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