Author: John Harold Lister
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Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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The Cotton Producers Association
Author: John Harold Lister
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Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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Category : Cotton trade
Languages : en
Pages : 100
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A History of the Cotton Producers Association
Author: Parks B. Dimsdale
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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Rural Society and Cotton in Colonial Zaire
Author: Osumaka Likaka
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299153339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
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This masterful social and economic history of rural Zaire examines the complex and lasting effects of forced cotton cultivation in central Africa from 1917 to 1960. Osumaka Likaka recreates daily life inside the colonial cotton regime. He shows that, to ensure widespread cotton production and to overcome continued peasant resistance, the colonial state and the cotton companies found it necessary to augment their use of threats and force with efforts to win the cooperation of the peasant farmers, through structural reforms, economic incentives, and propaganda exploiting African popular culture. As local plots of food crops grown by individual households gave way to commercial fields of cotton, a whole host of social, economic, and environmental changes followed. Likaka reveals how food shortages and competition for labor were endemic, forests were cleared, social stratification increased, married women lost their traditional control of agricultural production, and communities became impoverished while local chiefs enlarged their power and prosperity. Likaka documents how the cotton regime promoted its cause through agricultural exhibits, cotton festivals, films, and plays, as well as by raising producer prices and decreasing tax rates. He also shows how the peasant laborers in turn resisted regimented agricultural production by migrating, fleeing the farms for the bush, or sabotaging plantings by surreptitiously boiling cotton seeds. Small farmers who had received appallingly low prices from the cotton companies resisted by stealing back their cotton by night from the warehouses, to resell it in the morning. Likaka draws on interviews with more than fifty informants in Zaire and Belgium and reviews an impressive array of archival materials, from court records to comic books. In uncovering the tumultuous economic and social consequences of the cotton regime and by emphasizing its effects on social institutions, Likaka enriches historical understanding of African agriculture and development.
Publisher: Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN: 0299153339
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 205
Book Description
This masterful social and economic history of rural Zaire examines the complex and lasting effects of forced cotton cultivation in central Africa from 1917 to 1960. Osumaka Likaka recreates daily life inside the colonial cotton regime. He shows that, to ensure widespread cotton production and to overcome continued peasant resistance, the colonial state and the cotton companies found it necessary to augment their use of threats and force with efforts to win the cooperation of the peasant farmers, through structural reforms, economic incentives, and propaganda exploiting African popular culture. As local plots of food crops grown by individual households gave way to commercial fields of cotton, a whole host of social, economic, and environmental changes followed. Likaka reveals how food shortages and competition for labor were endemic, forests were cleared, social stratification increased, married women lost their traditional control of agricultural production, and communities became impoverished while local chiefs enlarged their power and prosperity. Likaka documents how the cotton regime promoted its cause through agricultural exhibits, cotton festivals, films, and plays, as well as by raising producer prices and decreasing tax rates. He also shows how the peasant laborers in turn resisted regimented agricultural production by migrating, fleeing the farms for the bush, or sabotaging plantings by surreptitiously boiling cotton seeds. Small farmers who had received appallingly low prices from the cotton companies resisted by stealing back their cotton by night from the warehouses, to resell it in the morning. Likaka draws on interviews with more than fifty informants in Zaire and Belgium and reviews an impressive array of archival materials, from court records to comic books. In uncovering the tumultuous economic and social consequences of the cotton regime and by emphasizing its effects on social institutions, Likaka enriches historical understanding of African agriculture and development.
Activities of the American Cotton Cooperative Association
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Agriculture and Forestry Committee
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Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1196
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Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Languages : en
Pages : 1538
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Languages : en
Pages : 1538
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Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee on Agriculture
Author: United States. Congress House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1966
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Category : Agricultural laws and legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 1966
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Reimburse Cotton Cooperative Associations for Losses Occasioned by the Federal Farm Board's Stabilization Operations, Provide for Cancelation of Certain Notes Acquired by the Farm Credit Administration as a Result of the Activities of the Federal Farm Board, Acquisition of Lands Adjacent to Highways in Order to Preserve Or Restore Their Natural Beauty
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture
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Category : Agricultural credit
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Category : Agricultural credit
Languages : en
Pages : 88
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Circular A.
Author: United States. Farm Credit Administration
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Category : Agricultural credit
Languages : en
Pages : 2038
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Category : Agricultural credit
Languages : en
Pages : 2038
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Activities of the American Cotton Cooperative Association
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Agriculture and Forestry
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Category : Cooperative marketing of farm produce
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
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Category : Cooperative marketing of farm produce
Languages : en
Pages : 1192
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Distribution of Government-owned Wheat and Cotton
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Appropriations
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Category : Cotton
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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