Download or read book Cotton, Colonialism, and Social History in Sub-Saharan Africa written by Allen Isaacman and published by James Currey. This book was released on 1995 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This interdisciplinary collection brings together recent scholarship on the social history of agrarian change in Africa. It provides an important entry into the lived experiences of millions of Africans who cultivated cotton, often under duress, during the colonial period. The social history of cotton in Africa thus provides an opportunity to take a constant in the changing worlds of colonialism - cotton - and to explore a range of African experiences historically and geographically.