Two Worlds of Cotton - Colonialism and the Regional Economy in the French Soudan, 1800-1946 (Hardcover)

A major new approach to the study of the social and economic history of colonial French West Africa, this book traces French efforts to establish a cotton export economy in the French Soudan from the early nineteenth century through the end of World War II.
Cotton cultivation and handicraft cotton textile production had long been an important part of the indigenous regional economies of West Africa. During the nineteenth century, the French metropolitan cotton textile industry developed and expanded, and securing new sources for raw cotton became a central concern for French industrialists and the emerging technocratic leadership of the French state. Controlling the French West Africa cotton harvest thus became of paramount importance to the French colonial endeavor.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	November 1996
First published:	1996
Authors:	Richard L. Roberts
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth / Cloth
Pages:	396
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-2652-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history Books > History > History of specific subjects > Economic history
LSN:	0-8047-2652-3
Barcode:	9780804726528

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