About this title: Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing "Deep Roots" fashions a theory of ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780253352194ISBN:0253352193
Description: New. Still sealed Brand new item, unread copy in fine condition. Any questions please e-mail, only too happy to help. No quibble refund if not completely satisfied. We aim to ship within one working day. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Indiana University Press, Bloomington and Indianapolis
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780253352194ISBN:0253352193
Description: Hardback, with dustwrapper. In Very Good condition. ISBN 9780253352194 Contents include: “1. The Rio Nunez Region: A Small Corner of West Africa's Rice Coast Region. 2. The First-Comers and the Roots of Coastal Rice-Growing Technology. 3. The Newcomers and the Seeds of Tidal Rice-Growing Technology. 4. Coastal Collaboration and Specialization: Flowering of Tidal Rice-Growing Technology. 5. The Strangers and the Branches of Coastal Rice-Growing Technology. 6. Feeding the Slave Trade: The Trade ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS Country = UNITED STATES
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780253352194ISBN:0253352193
Description: BRAND NEW HARDBACK. 248 pages. Mangrove rice farming on west africa's rice coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved africans in 18th-century south carolina and georgia. this book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the baga and nalu of coastal guinea, beginning more than a millennium before transatlantic slave trade. 20 b&w photographs, 5 maps (Hardback) read more
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Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780253352194ISBN:0253352193
Description: New. Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Ba... read more
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE: All books are promptly shipped from our UK warehouse using Royal Mail International Priority mail. Heavier or more expensive books are shipped with a TRACKING NUMBER. Professional and reliable bookseller (est.1987). The ancient rice-growing cultures of West Africa and their transplantation to the Georgia-Carolina coast. read more
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