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21 - Labor Migration in Sub-Saharan Africa before 1800

from Part VII - Labor Migration

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2023

By
Filipa Ribeiro da Silva
Edited by
Cátia Antunes  and
Eric Tagliacozzo
Cátia Antunes
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Eric Tagliacozzo
Affiliation:
Cornell University, New York
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Summary

Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of Global Migrations documents the lives and experiences of everyday people through the lens of human movement and mobility from 1400 to 1800. Focusing on the most important typologies of preindustrial global migrations, this volume reveals how these movements transformed global paths of mobility, the impacts of which we still see in societies today. Case studies include those that arose from the demand for free, forced, and unfree labor, long- and short-distance trade, rural/urban displacement, religious mobility, and the rise of the number of refugees worldwide. With thirty chapters from leading experts in the field, this authoritative volume is an essential and detailed study of how migration shaped the nature of global human interactions before the age of modern globalization.

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labour migrationprecolonial Africaenvironmenteconomyconflictspastoralismagricultureminingcommerce
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The Cambridge History of Global Migrations , pp. 413 - 428
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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Further Reading

Barnard, Alan. Hunters and Herders of Southern Africa: A Comparative Ethnography of the Khoisan Peoples. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Birmingham, David. Central Africa to 1870: Zambezia, Zaire and the South Atlantic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Bollig, Michael, Schnegg, Michael, and Wotzka, Hans-Peter, eds. Pastoralism in Africa: Past, Present and Future. New York: Berghahn, 2013.Google Scholar
Curtin, Philip D. Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1995.Google Scholar
Lovejoy, Paul E. Ecology and Ethnography of Muslim Trade in West Africa. New Brunswick: Africa World Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Lovejoy, Paul E. Slavery, Commerce, and Production in the Sokoto Caliphate of West Africa. Trenton: Africa World Press, 2005.Google Scholar
Miller, Joseph C. Kings and Kinsmen: Early Mbundu States in Angola. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.Google Scholar
Smith, Robert S. Warfare and Diplomacy in Pre-Colonial West Africa, 2nd Ed. London: James Currey, 1989.Google Scholar
Vansina, Jan. Habitat, Economy, and Society in the Central African Rain Forest. Oxford: Berg, 1992.Google Scholar

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