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French Colonialism, Imported Technology, and the Handicraft Textile Industry in the Western Sudan, 1898–1918

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Richard Roberts
Richard Roberts
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Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University, Standford, CA 94305.
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Abstract

European technology, both practical and managerial arts, had an impact on the well-established cotton and handicraft textile industries of the Western Sudan during the first twenty-five years of colonial rule. But French efforts to shape cotton production for export did not always have the intended results. Indigenous historical processes as well as French colonial policy account for the changes in these industries.

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Papers Presented at the Forty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 47 , Issue 2 , June 1987 , pp. 461 - 472
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Copyright © The Economic History Association 1987

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