From slavery to aid : politics, labour, and ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000 /

From Slavery to Aid engages two major themes in African historiography, the slow death of slavery and the evolution of international development, and reveals their interrelation in the social history of the region of Ader in the Nigerien Sahel. Benedetta Rossi traces the historical transformations t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Rossi, Benedetta (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Colección:African studies series.
Temas:
Slavery > Niger > History.
Enslaved persons > Emancipation > Niger > History.
Social stratification > Niger > History.
Labor policy > Niger.
Economic development projects > Niger.
Esclaves > Affranchissement > Niger > Histoire.
Stratification sociale > Niger > Histoire.
Travail > Politique gouvernementale > Niger.
Projets de développement économique > Niger.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
Economic development projects
Economic history
Labor policy
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Emancipation
Social stratification
Niger > Economic conditions.
Niger
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • At the desert's edge
  • Between Sokoto and Agadez : inter-ethnic hierarchy in the nineteenth century
  • Entangled histories of colonial occupation, 1899-1917
  • Governing labour
  • slave, forced, and migrant, 1918-1945
  • The development of "development", 1946-1983
  • Fighting against the desert, 1984-2000
  • Between development and dependence.

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