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The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, 1880–1995 - African Studies
Bassett, Thomas J. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire, 1880–1995 - African Studies
Bassett, Thomas J. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
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.
268 pages, 7 maps 13 tables
Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
Released | March 30, 2006 |
ISBN13 | 9780521788830 |
Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 268 |
Dimensions | 154 × 229 × 19 mm · 450 g |
Language | English |
Series Editor | Anderson, David |
Series Editor | Brown, Carolyn |
Series Editor | Clapham, Christopher |
Series Editor | Gomez, Michael |
Series Editor | Manning, Patrick |
Series Editor | Robinson, David |
Series Editor | Villalon, Leonardo A. |