Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire

Name: Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire
Price: 76.49 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780299153342

ISBN-10: 0299153347

ISBN-13: 9780299153342

Edition: 1997

Authors: Osumaka Likaka

List price: $26.95

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

1 new & used from $76.49

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; This masterful social and economic history of rural Zaire examines the complex and lasting effects of forced cotton cultivation in central Africa from 1917 to 1960. Osumaka Likaka recreates daily life inside the colonial cotton regime. He shows that, to ensure widespread cotton production and to overcome continued peasant resistance, the colonial state and the cotton companies found it necessary to augment their use of threats and force with efforts to win the cooperation of the peasant farmers, through structural reforms, economic incentives, and propaganda exploiting African popular culture. nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp; As local plots of food crops grown by individual…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 7/15/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 210
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.682
Language: English

Osumaka Likaka is associate professor of history at Wayne State University. He is author of Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire, also published by the University of Wisconsin Press.



Illustrations and Map


Tables


Acknowledgments


Introduction



The Organization of Production: The Cotton Labor Process



Forced Cotton Production and Social Control



Sharing the Social Product: Peasants and the Market



Cotton and Social Inequality



The Infrapolitics of the Cotton Cultivators


Conclusion


Notes


Selected Bibliography


Index