Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire

by Osumaka Likaka

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299153304
• ISBN13: 9780299153304
• Release Date: July 1997
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"