From Slavery to Aid - Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000

List of contents

1. At the desert's edge; 2. Between Sokoto and Agadez: inter-ethnic hierarchy in the nineteenth century; 3. Entangled histories of colonial occupation, 1899-1917; 4. Governing labour - slave, forced and migrant, 1918-45; 5. The development of 'development', 1946-83; 6. Fighting against the desert, 1984-2000; 7. Between development and dependence.

Product details

• Authors: Benedetta Rossi, Benedetta (University of Birmingham) Rossi, Rossi Benedetta
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.08.2015
• EAN: 9781107119055
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11905-5
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 mm x 28 mm
• Series: African Studies
• Subjects: Non-fiction book; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, HISTORY / Africa / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Slavery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Economic history, Social and cultural anthropology, African History, Slavery & abolition of slavery, Slavery, enslaved persons and abolition of slavery