The World and a Very Small Place in Africa

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The World and a Very Small Place in Africa is written by Donald R. Wright and published by M.E. Sharpe. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 156324960X (ISBN 10) and 9781563249600 (ISBN 13).

This study looks at the effects of "global" phenomena -- trans-Saharan trade, European expansion, the rise of an Atlantic plantation complex, industrialization, imperialism, colonialism, world wars, growth of a world market, political independence and economic dependence -- on the way of life in Niumi, a small area at the mouth of the Gambia river in West Africa (now called The Gambia), over the last six-seven hundred years. Written in clear, accessible prose, and drawing on archival and oral traditions, the work considers global developments from a local/regional perspective.