Author: Roberts, Richard L.
Title: Two Worlds of Cotton: Colonialism & the Regional Economy in the French Soudan, 1800-1946
Description: Stanford, Stanford University Press, 1996. orig. cloth. xv,381 pp, 23x15cm,. Textual maps,graphs & tables. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: Two Worlds of Cotton: Cotton, the European Cotton Textile Industry, & the Western Sudanese Handicraft Textile Industry; The Beginning of French Cotton Colonialism, 1817-1896; La Politique Cotonnière in the French Soudan & the Handicraft Textile Industry, 1896-1918; The Struggle to Control the Economy: World War I, Postwar Reconstruction in France, & Colonial Cotton Production; Colonial Cotton Development, Irrigation, & the Illusion of a New Egypt, 1918-1924; The Problem of Labor,1924-1932; Incentives, Surveillance, & Control: The Promotion of Peasant Cotton, 1924-1932; Local Processes & the World Economy: Imported Cloth, the Domestic Cotton Market, & the Handicraft Textile Industry, 1918-1932; The Failure to Control the Economy: The Brief Victory: The Office du Niger,1932-1946; The Triumph of Rain-Fed Cotton Production & the Persistence of the Handicraft Textile Injdustry, 1932-1946; Conclusion.

Keywords: French Colonialism, Mali Sahel Colony, West Africa Economy, Colonial Economics, Economic History, Cotton Trade, Textile Industry, Handicraft Soudan, Industrial