THOMAS J BASSETT.

THOMAS J BASSETT, The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Cote d'Ivoire 1880-1995 Cambridge: Cambridge University Pres (hard shrouds 47.50 [pounds sterling], US$65.00, ISBN 0 521 78313 5) 2001 266 pp

Since the early 1960 Cote d'Ivoire has witnessed a dramatic revolution in cotton production through smallholder farmers, allowing exports to rise from 2000 tons in 1963 to 381000 tons by way of 1998. Bassett's primary objective in this meticulous and convincing studious mood is to challenge widely held assumptions that this incline was solely the result of exogenous forces acting

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