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Category : Wisconsin
Languages : en
Pages : 352
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The Economy of West Central Wisconsin
Energy and the Economy of West Central Wisconsin
Author: Energy and Economic Development in West Central Wisconsin
Author: David G. LennanderPublisher:
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Category : Energy consumption
Languages : en
Pages : 86
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The Wisconsin Economy
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Economic indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 766
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Slave Trade and Abolition
Author: Vanessa S. OliveiraPublisher: University of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299325806
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transatlantic slave trade. Between 1801 and 1850, it served as the point of embarkation for more than 535,000 enslaved Africans. In the history of this diverse, wealthy city, the gendered dynamics of the merchant community have frequently been overlooked. Vanessa S. Oliveira traces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas (a term adapted from the title granted to noble and royal women in the Iberian Peninsula) were often important cultural brokers. Acting as intermediaries between foreign and local people, they held high socioeconomic status and even competed with the male merchants who controlled the trade. Oliveira provides rich evidence to explore the many ways this Luso-African community influenced its society. In doing so, she reveals an unexpectedly nuanced economy with regard to the dynamics of gender and authority.
No Condition Is Permanent
Author: Sara S. BerryPublisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299139344
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
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“No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry’s theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book explores the complex way African economy and society are tied to issues of land and labor, offering a comparative study of agrarian change in four rural economies in sub-Saharan Africa, including two that experienced long periods of expanding peasant production for export (southern Ghana and southwestern Nigeria), a settler economy (central Kenya), and a rural labor reserve (northeastern Zambia). The resources available to African farmers have changed dramatically over the course of the twentieth century. Berry asserts that the ways resources are acquired and used are shaped not only by the incorporation of a rural area into colonial (later national) and global political economies, but also by conflicts over culture, power, and property within and beyond rural communities. By tracing the various debates over rights to resources and their effects on agricultural production and farmers’ uses of income, Berry presents agrarian change as a series of on-going processes rather than a set of discrete “successes” and “failures.” No Condition Is Permanent enriches the discussion of agrarian development by showing how multidisciplinary studies of local agrarian history can constructively contribute to development policy. The book is a contribution both to African agrarian history and to debates over the role of agriculture in Africa’s recent economic crises.
Economic Study for STH 29 Bypass, Chippewa County
Author: Agricultural Conditions and the Rural Economy
Author: United States. Congress. Joint Economic CommitteePublisher:
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Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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A History of West Central Africa to 1850
Author: John K. ThorntonPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107127157
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
An accessible interpretative history of West Central Africa from earliest times to 1852 with comprehensive and in-depth coverage of the region.
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