Africans and the Industrial Revolution in England Inikori Hardback 9780521811934

Africans and the Industrial Revolution in EnglandA Study in International Trade and Economic Development\nAuthor(s): Joseph E. Inikori\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9780521811934, 978-0521811934\nSynopsis\nDrawing on classical development theory and recent theoretical advances on the connection between expanding markets and technological developments, this book shows the critical role of expanding Atlantic commerce in the successful completion of England's industrialization process over the period [tel]. The contribution of Africans, the central focus of the book, is measured in terms of the role of diasporic Africans in large-scale commodity production in the Americas - of which expanding Atlantic commerce was a function - at a time when demographic and other socioeconomic conditions in the Atlantic basin encouraged small-scale production by independent populations, largely for subsistence. Thi.