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Alabama in Africa : Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South /

In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of la...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Zimmerman, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Colección:America in the World ; 3
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • PREFACE
  • INTRODUCTION
  • Chapter 1. COTTON, THE "NEGRO QUESTION," AND INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION IN THE NEW SOUTH
  • Chapter 2. SOZIALPOLITIK AND THE NEW SOUTH IN GERMANY
  • Chapter 3. ALABAMA IN AFRICA: TUSKEGEE AND THE COLONIAL DECIVILIZING MISSION IN TOGO
  • Chapter 4. FROM A GERMAN ALABAMA IN AFRICA TO A SEGREGATIONIST INTERNATIONAL: THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS AND THE GLOBAL SOUTH
  • Chapter 5. FROM INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION FOR THE NEW SOUTH TO A SOCIOLOGY OF THE GLOBAL SOUTH
  • Conclusion. PRUSSIAN PATHS OF CAPITALIST DEVELOPMENT: THE TUSKEGEE EXPEDITION TO TOGO BETWEEN TRANSNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE HISTORY
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX