A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution by Toby Green

A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution

Toby Green

650 pages paperback 2019

3 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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By the time the "Scramble for Africa" among European colonial powers began in the late nineteenth century, Africa had already been globally connected for centuries. Its gold had fueled the economies of Europe and the Islamic world for nearly a mil...

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