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Record Nr.

UNINA9910151587603321

Autore

Robins Jonathan

Titolo

Cotton and race across the Atlantic : Britain, Africa, and America, 1900-1920 / / Jonathan E. Robins [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Rochester, NY : , : University of Rochester Press, , 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 298 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora ; ; v. 73

Disciplina

338.1/7351096

Soggetti

Cotton trade - Africa - History

Cotton trade - England - Lancashire - History

Cotton trade - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 31 Jul 2019).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The cotton crisis: Lancashire, the American South, and the turn to "Empire Cotton" -- "The Black man's crop": The British Cotton Growing Association and Africa -- "The scientific redemption of Africa": Coercion and regulation in colonial agriculture -- "King Cotton's impoverished retinue": Making cotton a "White man's crop" in the American South -- Cotton, development, and the "Imperial Burden."

Sommario/riassunto

The story of how African farmers, African-American scientists, and British businessmen struggled to turn colonial Africa into a major cotton exporter.