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Studies in rural capitalism in West Africa.

Title
Studies in rural capitalism in West Africa.
Author
Hill, Polly, 1914-2005.
Publication
Cambridge [England] University Press, 1970.

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Description
xxiii, 172 pages illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
Study of rural area economic structures and mechanisms in West Africa, with particular reference to ownership and capitalist entrepreneurship among indigenous peoples in Ghana and Nigeria - covers economic implications and social implications of marketing activities connected with agriculture, animal production and fishery. Bibliography pp. 160 to 165, maps and statistical tables.
Series Statement
African studies series, 2
Uniform Title
African studies series ; 2.
Subject
  • Agriculture > Economic aspects > Africa, West > Case studies
  • Farmers > Africa, West > Case studies
  • Agriculture > Economic aspects
  • Farmers
  • Rural conditions
  • Plattelandseconomie
  • rural area
  • economic structure
  • ownership
  • capitalist
  • entrepreneurship
  • indigenous people
  • economic implication
  • social implication
  • marketing
  • agriculture
  • animal production
  • fishery
  • statistical table
  • Rural conditions > West Africa
  • Agricultural economics > West Africa
  • Agriculture > Aspect économique > Afrique occidentale
  • Conditions rurales > Afrique occidentale
  • zone rurale
  • structure économique
  • propriété
  • capitaliste
  • esprit d'entreprise
  • peuple autochtone
  • conséquences économiques
  • conséquences sociales
  • élevage
  • pêche
  • tableau statistique
  • zona rural
  • estructura económica
  • propiedad
  • capitalista
  • capacidad empresarial
  • pueblo indígena
  • consecuencias económicas
  • consecuencias sociales
  • mercadotecnia
  • agricultura
  • producción animal
  • industria pesquera
  • cuadros estadísticos
  • AGRICULTURE
  • Africa, West > Rural conditions > Case studies
  • West Africa
  • Ghana
  • Nigeria
  • West Africa
  • Afrique occidentale
  • Africa Occidental
Genre/Form
  • Case studies
  • bibliography.
  • map.
  • Case studies.
  • Études de cas.
  • bibliographie.
  • carte géographique.
  • bibliografía.
  • mapa.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 160-165.
Contents
pt. 1: Polemics. A plea for indigenous economics: the West African example -- pt. 2: Fieldwork. Ghanaian capitalist cocoa-farmers ; Ewe seine fishermen ; Cattle-ownership on the Accra Plains ; The Northern Ghanaian cattle trade ; Notes on the history of the northern Katsina tobacco trade ; Farms and farmers in a Hausa village (Northern Nigeria).
ISBN
  • 0521076226
  • 9780521076227
LCCN
77096093
OCLC
  • ocm00071782
  • 71782
  • SCSB-227726
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library