The World and a Very Small Place in Africa: A History of Globalization in Niumi, The Gambia

The World and a Very Small Place in Africa
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
List of illustrations
List of maps
List of perspectives
Preface to the fourth edition
Introduction
	A very small place in Africa
	Globalization
PART I:
Archaic globalization: before 1600 ce
Chapter 1: The global setting for Niumi’s history: early archaic
globalization
	Western Europe’s strengthening connections
	West Africa’s strengthening connections
Chapter 2: Niumi during early archaic globalization: before 1450 ce
	The physical setting
	The cultural setting
	Niumi’s early residents, their commercial milieu, and the Niumi state
Chapter 3: Niumi during late-archaic globalization, 1450–1600:
waxing Atlantic trade, enduring Sudanic trade
	Western Europe and the rise of the Atlantic plantation complex
	Early Atlantic trade and political change in Niumi
	Trade diasporas and new identities
	New ways of life
PART II:
Proto-globalization: 1600–1800
Chapter 4: Niumi during proto-globalization: the height of the Atlantic complex
	Niumi’s expanding world
	The Niumi polity
	A wider world at home
	The changing nature of dependence
PART III:
Modern globalization: 1800–1950s
Chapter 5: Niumi in a time of transition: 1816–1897
	Revolutionary change in the West
	Islam’s militant strain
	Weakening of the Niumi state
	New systems of production and exchange: the peanut revolution
	The Soninke-Marabout Wars
	Formal British takeover
	A deepening dependence
Chapter 6: Niumi as part of the Gambia Colony and Protectorate: 1897–1965
	The unsettled twentieth-century world
	Establishment of colonial rule
	The world of peanuts
	Development
	A quiet broadening and deepening of Islam
	Niumi in a world at war
	Postwar malaise
	Toward independence
PART IV
Post-colonial globalization, 1950s–
Chapter 7: Independent Niumi in the First Republic of The Gambia: 1965–1994
	Mid-twentieth century global realities
	New rulers, old rules
	A chance encounter with world history and a boost for tourism: Roots
	Modernization?
Chapter 8: Niumi in the recent wave of globalization: the Second Republic, 1994–2017
	Globalization’s newest wave
	Soldier to statesman to tyrant
	Is globalization good for the world’s poor? Niumi as case study
	The presidential election of 2016
Epilogue, 2017: #Gambia HAS Decided
Bibliography
	Archives and libraries
	Dissertations and manuscripts
	Online sources
	Interviews
	Newspapers and periodicals (print and online)
	Books and articles
Index