The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote D'Ivoire, 1880 1995 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521783132)

The development of the cotton economy in West Africa is an African success story. This enduring agricultural revolution was brought about by tens of thousands of small-scale peasant farmers. Drawing on archival research, oral histories, and long-term fieldwork on the small farms of northern Ivory Coast, this book places the rural African actors center stage and brings out the complex and manifold ways in which they shaped farming systems and influenced the government policies that brought the cotton economy into being, and sustained it from the 1880s to the 1990s.

Author: Thomas J. Bassett
ISBN-10: 0521783135
ISBN-13: 9780521783132
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 05/28/2001
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 04/01/2002 pg. 1476