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Author Rossi, Benedetta, author.

Title From slavery to aid : politics, labour, and ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800-2000 / Benedetta Rossi, University of Birmingham
Published New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps
Series African studies series
African studies series.
Contents 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
Summary 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 that turned a society where slavery was a fundamental institution into one governed by the goals and methods of 'aid'. Over an impressive sweep of time - from the pre-colonial power of the Caliphate of Sokoto to the aid-driven governments of the present - this study explores the problem that has remained the central conundrum throughout Ader's history: how workers could meet subsistence needs and employers fulfil recruitment requirements in an area where natural resources are constantly exposed to the climatic hazards characteristic of the edge of the Sahara
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Slavery -- Niger -- History
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Niger -- History
Social stratification -- Niger -- History
Labor policy -- Niger
Economic development projects -- Niger
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economic development projects
Economic history
Labor policy
Slavery
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation
Social stratification
SUBJECT Niger -- Economic conditions
Subject Niger
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
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