| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 335 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color, maps |
| Series |
African history, 2211-1441 ; volume 9 |
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African history (Brill Academic Publishers) ; v. 9.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Prelude: The Lake Kivu Region in the nineteenth century -- Part 1. Structural basis. Coffee production : from the global to the local -- Explaining the divergence -- Part 2. On the ground. Mobilizing land for the coffee sector -- Mobilizing coffee-cultivating labor -- Coffee labor on the spot -- African feedback -- Conclusion: A merger based on diversity and compromise -- Annex 1: Decree on Coffee Limitations (1938) |
| Summary |
"In Dissimilar Coffee Frontiers Sven Van Melkebeke compares the divergent development of coffee production in the Eastern Congo and Western Rwanda during the colonial period. The Lake Kivu region offers a remarkable case-study to investigate diversity in economic development. In Rwanda, on the eastern side of the lake, coffee was mainly cultivated by smallholder families, while in the Congo, on the western side of the lake, European plantations were the dominant mode of production. Making use of a wide array of largely untapped archival sources, Sven Van Melkebeke convincingly succeeds in moving the manuscript beyond a case-study of colonizers to a more nuanced history of interaction and in presenting an innovative new social history of labor and land processes"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 21, 2020) |
| Subject |
Coffee industry -- Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- History -- 20th century
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Coffee plantations -- Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- History -- 20th century
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Coffee growers -- Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- History -- 20th century
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Coffee growers
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Coffee industry
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Coffee plantations
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Economic history -- Regional disparities
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| SUBJECT |
Kivu, Lake, Region (Congo and Rwanda) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century -- Regional disparities
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| Subject |
Africa -- Lake Kivu Region
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020023494 |
| ISBN |
9004428496 |
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9789004428492 |
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