Title: Slavery, colonialism, and economic growth in Dahomey, 1640-1960 /
Authors: Manning, Patrick,
Date: 1982
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Physical description: xvii, 446 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: H
Abstract: "The author has pieced together an extensive body of new evidence and new interpretations: he has combined descriptive evidence with quantitative data on foreign trade, slave demography and colonial government finance, and has relied on both Marxian and Neoclassical techniques of economic analysis."--Back Cover.
Contents: Slavery, colonialism and economic growth, 1640-1960 -- The Dahomean economy, 1640-1890 -- Struggles with the gods: economic life in the 1880s -- Production, 1890-1914 -- Demand, 1890-1914 -- Exchange, 1890-1914 -- The alien state, 1890-1914 -- Social struggles for economic ends, 1890-1914 -- The mechanism of accumulation -- Capitalism and colonialism, 1915-60 -- The Dahomean national movement -- Epilogue.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Benin--Colonial influence--History.; Benin--Economic conditions.; Benin--Foreign economic relations.; Slave trade--Benin--History.