Author: John Robert HosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Britain and the Development of West African Cotton, 1845 to 1960
Author: John Robert HosePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cotton growing
Languages : en
Pages : 680
Book Description
Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic
Author: Jonathan RobinsPublisher: Boydell & Brewer
ISBN: 1580465676
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton exporter.
Two Worlds of Cotton
Author: Richard L. RobertsPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804726528
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
A major new approach to the study of the social and economic history of colonial French West Africa, this book traces French efforts to establish a cotton export economy in the French Soudan from the early nineteenth century through the end of World War II. By showing how a regionally based local economy successfully withstood the pressure from European capitalist markets and colonial aspirations, the book sheds new light on various generally accepted assumptions about the character of colonial economies and their integration into global export markets. It thus challenges the notion that colonial political, military, and elite intellectual hegemony translated directly or easily into regional economic hegemony. In making this argument, the book points to inherent weaknesses in the usual view of the colonial state, notably the failure to recognize sufficiently the enduring power of local processes - or local currents of culture and practice - to withstand empire and ultimately shape the experience of colonialism.
Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher: Copyright Office, Library of Congress
ISBN:
Category : Copyright
Languages : en
Pages : 1760
Book Description
Global Histories, Imperial Commodities, Local Interactions
Author: Jonathan Curry-MachadoPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137283602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The papers presented in this collection offer a wide range of cases, from Asia, Africa and the Americas, and broadly cover the last two centuries, in which commodities have led to the consolidation of a globalised economy and society – forging this out of distinctive local experiences of cultivation and production, and regional circuits of trade.
The Political Economy of Poverty, Vulnerability and Disaster Risk Management
Author: Munyaradzi MawerePublisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 9956764337
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
Poverty remains a thorny and topical challenge and research topic to scholars and researchers on African development. Scholars in the Global North have since the Second World War sought to research poverty and underdevelopment in Africa, postulating what they think are the major causes of insipid and abject poverty in the continent, but with little or no success on how to solve the poverty enigma. Sadly, little research and homework have been done by scholars in context (in Africa) on why there seems to be more production rather than eradication of poverty and vulnerability in Africa and among Africans. This book is born out of the realisation for the need for both scholars on the ground and outside Africa to earnestly interrogate and reflect on the poverty situation that continues to haunt the people of Africa and rattle the conscience of the world at large. With contributors from across the continent and beyond, the volume offers a balanced and rigorous, multi-faceted analysis of Africas poverty and vulnerability from a rich tapestry of perspectives. The volume is handy to scholars and students in the fields of African and development studies, as well as to students of Sociology, Anthropology, Political Science and Policy Studies.
The International Journal of African Historical Studies
Author: Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: Allen F. IsaacmanPublisher: Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
By linking cotton and colonialism in this way, these eleven case studies open up new comparisons between different colonial agricultural policies, different labor regimes, and different forms of African response to colonial economic policies. This study of cotton in colonial Africa highlights both the way industrial capitalism sought to call forth tropical raw materials and the ways this colonial project was shaped by the dynamic local processes of production, exchange, social reproduction, and rural resistance.
Catalog of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies, Northwestern University Library (Evanston, Illinois) and Africana in Selected Libraries
Author: Melville J. Herskovits Library of African StudiesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 774
Book Description
Books and Pamphlets, Including Serials and Contributions to Periodicals
Author: Library of Congress. Copyright OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description