From Slavery to Aid: Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000

ISBN-13: 9781107545113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 403 str.

Benedetta Rossi

Opis

This book explores transformations in the relationship between ecology, politics and labour in the Nigerien Sahel over two centuries.

Recenzje

'… well-organized, clearly written, and easily digested … From Slavery to Aid successfully blends archival research with ethnographic fieldwork, making it an exceptional specimen of historical anthropology.' D. Dmitri Hurlbut, African Studies Quarterly

Spis treści

1. At the desert's edge; 2. Between Sokoto and Agadez: inter-ethnic hierarchy in the nineteenth century; 3. Entangled histories of colonial occupation, 1899–1917; 4. Governing labour – slave, forced and migrant, 1918–45; 5. The development of 'development', 1946–83; 6. Fighting against the desert, 1984–2000; 7. Between development and dependence.