CONTENTS

List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Acknowledgments

Part I

Introduction

1 Writing a New History

Part II

Birth of the Yorùbá Community of Practice, ca. 300 BC–AD 1420

2 The Emergence of a House Society

3 Knowledge Capital and Referentiality Part III

Atrophy and Regeneration, ca. 1400–1650

4 Atrophy

5 Regeneration and Restoration

Part IV

Atlantic Entanglements, 1630–1840

6 Merchant Capital Revolution

7 Sociality of Merchant Capital

8 Perennial Inequality

9 A House Divided

Part V

Conclusion

10 The Past in the Present

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Notes on Orthography and Glossary of Yorùbá Words Bibliography

Index

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