Two Worlds of Cotton: Colonialism and the Regional Economy in the French Soudan, 1800-1946

A major new approach to the study of the social and economic history of colonial French West Africa, this book traces French efforts to establish a cotton export economy in the French Soudan from the early nineteenth century through the end of World War II.

Author: Richard L. Roberts
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 11/01/1996
Pages: 396
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.46lbs
Size: 9.17h x 6.17w x 1.03d
ISBN: 9780804726528

About the Author
Richard L. Roberts is Professor of History at Stanford University. He is the author of Warriors, Merchants, and Slaves: The State and the Economy in the Middle Niger Valley, 1700-1914 (Stanford, 1987).