The political economy of West African agriculture

Keith Hart

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.

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[目次]

  • Acknowledgements
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. West Africa's economic backwardness in anthropological perspective
  • 3. The organization of agricultural production
  • 4. The state in agricultural development
  • 5. The market and capital in agricultural development
  • 6. The social impact of commercial agriculture
  • 7. What is to be done?
  • Notes
  • Select annotated bibliography
  • Supplementary bibliography
  • Index.

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書名 The political economy of West African agriculture
著作者等 Hart, Keith
シリーズ名 Cambridge studies in social anthropology
出版元 Cambridge University Press
刊行年月 1982
ページ数 ix, 226 p.
大きさ 24 cm
ISBN 0521284236
0521240735
NCID BA10116934
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言語 英語
出版国 イギリス
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