The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa - Cote D'Ivoire, 1880 1995

Success story highlighting role of peasant farmers in cotton revolution in Côte d'Ivoire.

List of contents

1. Introduction; 2. The collision of empires, 1880-1911; 3. The uncaptured corvée, 1912-46; 4. Repackaging cotton, 1947-63; 5. Making cotton work, 1964-84; 6. 'To sow or not to sow': the extensification of cotton, gender politics, and rural mobilization, 1985-95; 7. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography.

About the author

Thomas J. Bassett is Associate Professor of Geography at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He is co-author of Land in African Agrarian Systems (1993) and Maps of Africa to 1900 (2000), and has been engaged in long-term field work in Côte d'Ivoire since 1981.

Summary

This book explores the making of an agricultural revolution by tens of thousands of small-scale peasant farmers engaged in the cultivation of cotton. Thomas Bassett combines colonial era archives, oral histories, and field research in the northern Côte d'Ivoire to explain the social and agricultural history of this agrarian transformation.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas J. Bassett
• Assisted by: David Anderson (Editor), Carolyn Brown (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 20.08.2014
• EAN: 9780521783132
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78313-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Weight: 540 g
• Series: African Studies Series; African Studies Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)