Trading States of the Oil Rivers A Study of Political Development in Eastern Nigeria

This vivid account of the rise of the remarkable slave and palm oil trading states in the Niger Delta in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries also analyzes the relationship of political development to economic change. The author's field studies among the Ijo, Ibibio, and Ibo peoples have made possible analysis of the essential processes of economic and political transformation that lay behind oral traditions. There are also detailed and often lively accounts of European traders of the period.Jones, G. I. is the author of 'Trading States of the Oil Rivers A Study of Political Development in Eastern Nigeria', published 2002 under ISBN 9783825847784 and ISBN 3825847780.