The region between the river Senegal and Sierra Leone saw the first trans-Atlantic slave
trade in the sixteenth century. Drawing on many new sources, Toby Green challenges current …

… Toby Green's groundbreaking new book transforms our view of West and West-Central
Africa. It reconstructs the world of kingdoms whose existence (like those of Europe) revolved …

… Toby Green analyses the contradictions emerging through this response as part of a broader
crisis in Western thought, where conservative thought is also riven by contradictions, with …

At the 2017 UKSG Conference, a show of hands during Stuart Lawson’s plenary on ‘Access,
ethics and piracy’showed that barely anyone present blocked access to Sci-Hub or …

The past decade has seen much ink spilled on global interconnections in the early modern
economy, especially those linking European and Asian economies. But this Eurasian …

Progress to open access (OA) has stalled, with perhaps 20% of new papers ‘born‐free’, and
half of all versions of record pay‐walled; why? In this paper, I review the last 12 months: …

… ª da Conceição, Cidade Velha, Cape Verde7: Bart Jacobs: On the Dutch Presence in 17th-century
Senegambia and the Emergence of Papiamentu8: Toby Green: The Emergence of a …

Since 1998 Guinea-Bissau has suffered a series of coups which outside analysts have linked
to its emergence as West Africa’s first ‘narco-state’. Yet what does this mean for the country …

… Toby Green and Thomas Fazi argue that these policies grossly exacerbated existing trends
of inequality, mediatisation and surveillance, with grave implications for the future. Rich in …

Abstract: In the past two decades, economic history has been marked by an increasing turn
toward global frameworks and analyses, but these still tend to omit the African continent prior …