Alabama in Africa : Booker T. Washington, the German empire, and the globalization of the new South /

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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
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Zimmerman, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Colección:America in the world.
Temas:
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915.
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915
Washington, Booker T.
Tuskegee Institute.
Tuskegee Institute
Tuskegee University
BMBF-Statusseminar
Cotton trade > Togo > History.
Agricultural laborers > Togo > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
Agricultural laborers
Cotton trade
German colonies
Kolonie
Baumwollwirtschaft
Baumwollindustrie.
Germany > Colonies > Africa.
Africa
Togo
Togo.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cotton, the "Negro question," and industrial education in the new South
  • Sozialpolitik and the new South in Germany
  • Alabama in Africa: Tuskegee and the colonial decivilizing mission in Togo
  • From a German Alabama in Africa to the segregationist international: the League of Nations and the global South
  • Prussian paths of capitalist development: the Tuskegee expedition to Togo between transnational and comparative history.

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