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The peasant cotton revolution in West Africa: Côte d'Ivoire, 1880-1995 / Thomas J. Bassett.

Title
The peasant cotton revolution in West Africa: Côte d'Ivoire, 1880-1995 / Thomas J. Bassett.
Author
Bassett, Thomas J.
Publication
Cambridge, UK ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Description
xix, 243 p. : ill. , maps; 24 cm.
Summary
"The literature on Africa is dominated by accounts of crisis, doom and gloom, but this book presents one of the few long-running success stories. Thomas Bassett, a distinguished American geographer well known in the field of development, tells an unusual story of the growth of the cotton economy of West Africa, where change was brought about by tens of thousands of small-scale peasant farmers. While the introduction of new strains of cotton in francophone West Africa was in part a result of agronomic research by French scientists, supported by an unusually efficient marketing structure, this is not a case of triumphant top-down "planification". Employing the case of Cote d'Ivoire, Professor Bassett shows agricultural intensification to result from the cumulative effect of decades of incremental changes in farming techniques and social organization. A significant contribution to the literature, the book demonstrates the need to consider the local and temporal dimensions of agricultural innovations. It brings into question many key assumptions that have influenced development policies during the twentieth century."--Jacket.
Series Statement
African studies series ; 101
Uniform Title
African studies series 101.
Subject
  • Cotton trade > Côte d'Ivoire > History
  • Rural development > Côte d'Ivoire > Case studies
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • History
  • Études de cas.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
The collision of empires, 1880-1911 -- The uncaptured corvée, 1912-1946 -- Repackaging cotton, 1947-1963 -- Making cotton work, 1964-1984 -- "To sow to not to sow" : the extensification of cotton, gender politics, and rural mobilization, 1985-1995.
ISBN
0521783135
LCCN
^^^00031276^
OCLC
  • 44083982
  • SCSB-9999017
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library