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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zimmerman, Andrew (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
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.
Online Access:Texto completo

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