Migrants, credit and climate : the Gambian groundnut trade, 1834-1934 /

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Swindell, Kenneth
Otros Autores: Jeng, Alieu
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2006.
Colección:African social studies series ; v. 12.
Temas:
Peanut industry > Gambia > History.
Arachides > Industrie > Gambie > Histoire.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
Peanut industry.
Erdnusshandel
Gambia.
Gambia
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
  • LIST OF FIGURES
  • MEASUREMENTS, WEIGHTS AND MONETARY VALUES
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE THE GAMBIAN GROUNDNUT TRADE, 18348211;1893: THE EMERGENCE OF AN AGRICULTURAL EXPORT ECONOMY
  • The pre-specialization period of groundnut production 18348211;1857
  • The conditions for adaptation and change
  • The Anglo-French Connection
  • The beginnings of specialization, 18578211;1893
  • The groundnut trade and warfare
  • The Merchants, trading networks and credit
  • Producer resistance
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER TWO MIGRANT FARMERS: SERAWOOLLIES AND TILLIBUNKAS
  • Labour and the groundnut cultivation cycle
  • The development of the migrant labour system
  • Labour migration from the upper Senegal valley in the early 19th century
  • A broadening of the migrant and producer base
  • Migrant farmers: contracts and obligations
  • Local labour and groundnut production
  • Strange Farmers in the late 19th century
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER THREE FOOD FARMING AND THE GROUNDNUT TRADE
  • The farming environment
  • Gambian farming systems
  • Land
  • Rice Farming
  • Groundnut cultivation and food supply
  • Changing patterns of food production and rice importing
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER FOUR THE BEGINNINGS OF COLONIAL RULE, 18938211;1913
  • Partition and the proposed cession of The Gambia
  • The establishment of the Protectorate and the introduction of taxation
  • The abolition of slavery
  • Strange Farmers and abolition
  • Groundnut production and environmental disturbance
  • The Merchant Combine
  • Attempts at diversification
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER FIVE SUCCESS AND DISASTER, BOOM AND SLUMP: THE GROUNDNUT TRADE, 19138211;1922
  • The 1913 drought
  • A deteriorating climate?
  • The War and the groundnut trade
  • Groundnut producer prices and rice imports, 19138211;1920
  • Strange Farmers and groundnuts in the early 20th century
  • Pestilence, floods and droughts, 19178211;1920
  • The credit crisis of 1921
  • De-monetization
  • Summary
  • CHAPTER SIX TOWARDS AN AGRICULTURAL POLICY, 19238211;1933
  • The Gambian groundnut economy and the world trade depression, 19238211;1934
  • The Agricultural Department
  • The Strange Farmer debate
  • The rice and seed debt
  • The resumption of rice distribution
  • The irrigation and mixed farming schemes: enter the experts
  • Summary
  • SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS
  • INDEX.

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