Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa - Bassett, Thomas J. (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)

This book explores the making of an agricultural revolution by tens of thousands of small-scale peasant farmers engaged in the cultivation of cotton. Thomas Bassett combines colonial era archives, oral histories, and field research in the northern CĂ´te d'Ivoire to explain the social and agricultural history of this agrarian transformation.