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
Autor principal: Zimmerman, Andrew (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Washington, Booker T.
Washington, Booker T., > 1856-1915.
Tuskegee Institute.
Tuskegee University
Baumwollindustrie.
Baumwollwirtschaft
Kolonie
German colonies.
Cotton trade.
Agricultural laborers.
HISTORY > Africa > West.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Agriculture > Sustainable Agriculture.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Industries > Agribusiness.
Agricultural laborers > Togo > History.
Cotton trade > Togo > History.
Togo.
Togo
Africa.
Germany > Colonies > Africa.
History.
Electronic books.
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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