Afro-European trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast c1550-c1885
研究了西部奴隶海岸300多年的社会经济与政治变迁，聚焦胡拉王国和格王国与欧洲的贸易互动，揭示了该地区因地理和政治边缘性而未能成为奴隶贸易重心的历史。
This volume examines over 300 years of socio-economic, political, and demographic change in the Western Slave Coast from the vantage point of African-European commercial interactions and the slave trade in particular. It focuses primarily on the ebb and flow of two polities and their respective commercial centres: the Hula kingdom centred in Grand Popo, and the Ge kingdom, with its political and economic centres in Glidji and Little Popo respectively. Strickrodt fills an important gap in the historiography of a region that has remained vastly understudied. The lack of historiographical interest is probably a reflection of the historical marginality of coastal economies squeezed between much more important and lucrative markets on the Gold Coast and the Eastern Slave Coast, where socio-economic and environmental conditions more conducive to the slave trade attracted far greater European interest. One of the volume's key themes is that of the region's commercial marginality. Environmental factors, such as the lack of natural harbours and the abundance of sand bars, and geo-political conditions such as the lack of a powerful slave-raiding state in the immediate interior and the lack of a strong centre of power on the coast, hindered the aspirations of local traders. Despite their best efforts to attract and engage in deals with European slavers, they could never quite compete with the Dahomey-supplied slave markets of the Western Slave Coast.