Credit, Currencies, and Culture: African Financial Institutions in Historical PerspectiveEndre Stiansen, Jane I. Guyer A striking feature of African history is the volume of commerce and production that has been possible without the full panoply of credit, insurances, future markets, stock companies, limited liability, and other legal and financial services that make up the formal sector of modern economies. The contributions to this volume investigate institutional nexuses through which money has been managed in Africa. Together they present important perspectives that are needed to understand the present economic crisis on the continent. |
Contents
Finance and Credit in PreColonial Dahomey | 15 |
On Currency and Credit in the Western Sahel 17001850 | 38 |
Slaves as Money in the Sokoto Caliphate | 56 |
Theoretical Structures | 72 |
Document on Financial Transactions from Nineteenth | 97 |
Idealism and Contradiction | 146 |
Contributors 175 | |
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administrators African History Allada Arabic Atlantic slave trade Bank of Sudan British Cambridge capital cercle colonial Coloniale commercial commodity commodity moneys cowrie currency cowries Dahomean Dahomey debt Desert Frontier dollar eighteenth Endre Stiansen European example farmers financial institutions French funds Glele gold guinée Guyer Hausaland History of West Hogendorn Hunwick Ibid ideal imported Indigenous Credit Institutions interest Islamic banking Jane Journal of African Kano King l'Afrique Lagos loans London Lovejoy Maria Theresa Marion Johnson medium of exchange merchants monetary Money Matters Muḥammad Muslim Nigeria nineteenth century owó Paris pawning Pawnship political practice pre-colonial Primitive Money Qur'an ribā Robin Law sector Senegal Senegal River Sharia Slave Coast Social Payments sociétés de prévoyance Society Sokoto Caliphate taxes Timbuktu tion Toyin Falola trans-Saharan trans-Saharan trade transactions voyage waqf wealth West Africa Western Sahel Western Sahelian Whydah Yorùbá Yorùbáland zakāt zone
References to this book
The Nature of Entrustment: Intimacy, Exchange, and the Sacred in Africa Parker MacDonald Shipton No preview available - 2007 |