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.
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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.
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Textual maps, graphs & tables. Minor rubbing. VG. xv, 381 pp, 23x15cm, Contents: Two Worlds of Cotton: Cotton, the European Cotton Textile Industry, & the Western Sudanese Handicraft Textile Industry; The Beginning of French Cotton Colonialism, 1817-1896; La Politique Cotonnière in the French Soudan & the Handicraft Textile Industry, 1896-1918; The Struggle to Control the Economy: World War I, Postwar Reconstruction in France, & Colonial Cotton Production; Colonial Cotton Development, Irrigation, & the Illusion of a New Egypt, 1918-1924; The Problem of Labor, 1924-1932; Incentives, Surveillance, & Control: The Promotion of Peasant Cotton, 1924-1932; Local Processes & the World Economy: Imported Cloth, the Domestic Cotton Market, & the Handicraft Textile Industry, 1918-1932; The Failure to Control the Economy: The Brief Victory: The Office du Niger, 1932-1946; The Triumph of Rain-Fed Cotton Production & the Persistence of the Handicraft Textile Injdustry, 1932-1946; Conclusion.