| The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote D'Ivoire, 1880 1995 Contributor(s): Bassett, Thomas J. (Author), Anderson, David (Editor), Brown, Carolyn (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521783135 ISBN-13: 9780521783132 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2001 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History - Business & Economics | Industries - General - Science | Earth Sciences - Geography |
| Dewey: 338.173 |
| LCCN: 00031276 |
| Series: African Studies Series |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6.1" W x 9.1" (1.2 lbs) 266 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The development of the cotton economy in West Africa is an African success story. This enduring agricultural revolution was brought about by tens of thousands of small-scale peasant farmers. Drawing on archival research, oral histories, and long-term fieldwork on the small farms of northern Ivory Coast, this book places the rural African actors center stage and brings out the complex and manifold ways in which they shaped farming systems and influenced the government policies that brought the cotton economy into being, and sustained it from the 1880s to the 1990s. |
Contributor Bio(s): Bassett, Thomas J.: - 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 Cote d'Ivoire since 1981. |