Trade and transformation: Participation in the ivory trade in late 19th-century East and Central Africa

Canadian Journal of Development Studies

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 529-552

  Rempel, Ruth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEPHANT; HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE; NINETEENTH CENTURY; TRADE RELATIONS;

(CENTRAL); (EAST); AFRICA;

EID: 0032323247     PISSN: 02255189     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02255189.1998.9669768     Document Type: Article

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