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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.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series African studies series
African studies series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 -- 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.
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Subject Niger -- Economic conditions.
Niger.
Economic conditions.
Slavery -- Niger -- History.
Slavery.
History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- Niger -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Social stratification -- Niger -- History.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- British colonies.
Labor policy -- Niger.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation -- French colonies.
Economic development projects -- Niger.
Economic development projects.
Social stratification.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- General.
Labor policy.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Reference.
Economic history.
Enslaved persons -- Emancipation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Rossi, Benedetta. From slavery to aid 9781107119055 (DLC) 2015010541 (OCoLC)905667973
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