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| Title: | Long-Distance Trade and Economic Development in Europe and Black Africa (Mid-Fifteenth Century to Nineteenth Century): Some Pointers for Further Comparative Studies |
| Author: | Pétré-Grenouilleau, Olivier |
| Year: | 2001 |
| Periodical: | African Economic History |
| Volume: | 29 |
| Pages: | 163-196 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic terms: | Europe Subsaharan Africa |
| Subjects: | slave trade economic development long-distance trade history 1000-1999 History and Exploration Economics and Trade colonialism |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3601710 |
| Abstract: | Long-distance trade has often been seen as the main agent of economic development, in Europe as well as in Black Africa. This article examines the Black African and European long-distance trade from the mid-fifteenth century to the nineteenth century. Two types of activities are compared: maritime European commerce (which was, before the transport revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the main European long-distance trade) and the African slave trade, which was only one of the numerous types of African long-distance trade, but (together with the gold trade) the only trade connected with European traders. The purpose is not to provide ready-made answers and even less to provide a typology of long-distance trade based on a hypothetical ideal model, the source of the 'good' or the 'best possible' development. The author rather wants to convince the reader of the interest of a renewed comparative analysis with regard to the multiple ways of development used during the course of history. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
