caa a22 4500 386343691 CHVBK 20180307111803.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0021853700024117 doi S0021853700024117 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0021853700024117 Lynn Martin From Sail to Steam: the Impact of the Steamship Services on the British Palm Oil Trade with West Africa, 1850-1890 [Elektronische Daten] [Martin Lynn] In the late nineteenth century the West African palm oil trade entered a period of difficulties, characterized mainly by a fall in prices from the early 1860s. Part of the reason for this lay in the introduction of regular steamship services between Britain and West Africa from 1852. As steam came to replace sail so the palm oil trade underwent major changes. These changes can be quantified fairly precisely. One effect of the introduction of steamers was the concentration of the British side of the oil trade once again on Liverpool, its original centre. Another effect was the increase in the number of West African ports involved in the trade. The most important impact was the increase in numbers of traders in oil trade from around 25 to some 150. The resulting increased competition in the trade led to amal-gamations becoming increasingly common - a process that culminated in the formation of the African Association Ltd in 1889. It was also to provide the context for the pressure exerted by some traders for an increased colonial presence in the 1880s and 1890s. Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1989 The Journal of African History Cambridge University Press 30/2(1989-07), 227-245 0021-8537 30:2<227 1989 30 AFH https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700024117 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0021853700024117 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Lynn Martin NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Journal of African History Cambridge University Press 30/2(1989-07), 227-245 0021-8537 30:2<227 1989 30 AFH CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge