Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: the labor process in African agrarian history
  • Pt. 1. Transformations in productive forces. Major tensions in the political economy of the Lower Tchiri Valley, 1859-1863
  • From the slage trade to the rise of a peasantry, 1859-1925
  • Pt. 2. Problem of labor control. Resistance to capitalist colonial labor regimes, 1875-1923
  • Ultimate compromise: peasant cotton agriculture, 1907-1939
  • Pt. 3. Limits and contradictions of rural struggle. Structural and conjectural strains in food production and supply, 1907-1960
  • Reactive colonial attempts to restructure a distorted economy, 1930-1960
  • Constrained peasant initiatives and agrarian change, 1930-1960
  • Conclusions: a simple but diverse peasant world: the Lower Tchiri Valley revisited.