| Verfasst von: | Araujo, Ana Lucia [VerfasserIn]  |
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| Titel: | The gift |
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| Titelzusatz: | how objects of prestige shaped the Atlantic slave trade and colonialism |
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| Verf.angabe: | Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University, Washington, DC |
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| Ausgabe: | First published |
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| Verlagsort: | Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY |
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| Verlag: | Cambridge University Press |
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| Jahr: | 2024 |
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| Umfang: | XIX, 224 Seiten |
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| Illustrationen: | Illustrationen |
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| Gesamttitel/Reihe: | Cambridge studies on the African diaspora |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-108-83929-7 |
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| Abstract: | "The Gift tells the story of one silver ceremonial sword offered as a gift by French traders to an African agent, and reveals how prestigious gifts shaped the trade of enslaved Africans. This compelling account will interest historians of slavery and material culture"-- |
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| | The Gift explores how objects of prestige contributed to cross-cultural exchanges between Africans and Europeans during the Atlantic slave trade. An eighteenth-century silver ceremonial sword, commissioned in the port of La Rochelle by French traders, was offered as a gift to an African commercial agent in the port of Cabinda (Kingdom of Ngoyo), in twenty-first century Angola. Slave traders carried this object from Cabinda to Abomey, the capital of the Kingdom of Dahomey in twenty-first century's Republic of Benin, from where French officers looted the item in the late nineteenth century. Drawing on a rich set of sources in French, English, and Portuguese, as well as artifacts housed in museums across Europe and the Americas, Ana Lucia Araujo illuminates how luxury objects impacted European-African relations, and how these economic, cultural, and social interactions paved the way for the European conquest and colonization of West Africa and West Central Africa |
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| URL: | Cover: https://www.dietmardreier.de/annot/426F6F6B446174617C7C393738313130383833393239377C7C434F50.jpg?sq=1 |
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| Schlagwörter: | (g)Westafrika / (g)Zentralafrika <West> / (g)Frankreich / (s)Sklavenhandel / (s)Handel / (s)Gastgeschenk / (s)Beziehung |
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| Sprache: | eng |
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| Bibliogr. Hinweis: | Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Araujo, Ana Lucia: The gift. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2024. - Online-Ressource |
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| Sach-SW: | Afrikanische Geschichte |
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| | General & world history |
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| | HISTORY / General |
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| | Kolonialismus und Imperialismus |
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| | Materielle Kultur |
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| | Sklaverei und Abschaffung der Sklaverei |
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| | Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie |
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| Geograph. SW: | Afrika |
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| | Europa |
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| Zeit-SW: | 19. Jahrhundert (1800 bis 1899 n. Chr.) |
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| | zweite Hälfte 18. Jahrhundert (1750 bis 1799 n. Chr.) |
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| K10plus-PPN: | 1858927943 |
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| SignaturUB: | bestellt |
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