1. Introduction; 2. The collision of empires, 1880–1911; 3. The uncaptured corvée, 1912–46; 4. Repackaging cotton, 1947–63; 5. Making cotton work, 1964–84; 6. 'To sow or not to sow': the extensification of cotton, gender politics, and rural mobilization, 1985–95; 7. Conclusion; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography.
Success story highlighting role of peasant farmers in cotton revolution in Côte d'Ivoire.
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 Côte d'Ivoire since 1981.
'The principal merit of Bassett is to have been able to reconstruct a history of the agriculture and the development of the Ivory Coast and of West Africa drawing from the interaction of the main actors in cotton production and the cotton market.' Journal of Development Studies '... the case Bassett develops is compelling ...'. African Studies Review 'This is a good book that deserves to be widely read ... highly informative book ...'. Development and Change
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