The Political Economy of West African Agriculture (Cambridge Studies in Social Anthropology Series)

Keith Hart

ISBN 10: 0521240735 / ISBN 13: 9780521240734

Edité par Cambridge University Press, 1982

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Titre : The Political Economy of West African ...

Éditeur : Cambridge University Press

Date d'édition : 1982

Reliure : Hardcover

Etat : Very Good

Etat de la jaquette : Fair

Signé : Signed by Author(s)

Edition : 1st Edition

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West Africa's agriculture has, for 150 years, been heavily geared toward export, yet the region is one of the world's poorest. Keith Hart examines this question, focusing particularly on how this situation has affected the indigenous peoples of West Africa. Commerce has grown impressively, but productivity remains low and capital accumulation is retarded. The reasons exist primarily in internal conditions shaping social institutions. Before, during, and since colonialism, the particular problems of these preindustrial states have shaped agricultural development more than the pressure supposedly emanating from the 'world system' of international capitalism. This book, following the classical economists as well as Marx and Lenin, argues for the necessity of rapid capitalist penetration into West African agriculture. The book is also a readable introduction to the history and ethnography of the region as a whole.