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Cotton and Race across the Atlantic - Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920 (Hardcover)
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Cotton and Race across the Atlantic - Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920 (Hardcover)
Series: Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
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The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and
British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major
cotton exporter. During the first two decades of the twentieth
century, demand for raw cotton in Europe, Asia, and America
outstripped production as African Americans migrated away from
Southern cotton fields. Consequently, industrialists in Europe
turned to Africa for new sources of cotton. This volume documents
the efforts by British financiers and colonial officials, along
with some African-American allies, to bring the American model of
cotton production to colonial Africa. In a narrative featuring a
host of characters -- including British entrepreneurs, African
kings, and African-American scientists -- author Jonathan Robins
weaves together events in Africa, Britain, and the AmericanSouth.
Robins chronicles the origins, failings, and eventual evolution of
Britain's colonial cotton project, revealing the global forces and
actors that moved and transformed the international cotton
industry. JonathanE. Robins is assistant professor of global
history at Michigan Technological University.
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