Figure 6.3 Copper ingots from Sanga, Haut-Lomami, Katanga

Description: Booming Copper Production to the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Katanga and Kazembe

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6 Kingdoms and Associations: Copper’s Changing Political Economy during the Nineteenth Century: Booming Copper Production to the Mid-Nineteenth Century: Katanga and Kazembe

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In the century prior to European colonialism, African societies and economies had begun rapidly and sometimes violently changing. A vast literature, but best presented in the nineteenth-century military revolution illustrated in Richard J. Reid, Warfare in African History (Cambridge:...

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Miles Larmer and Enid Guene and Benoît Henriet

PublisherJames Currey

Word count3,460

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