@article{0f58d92efa8e4964b6eb706bb79be340,
title = "The development of cotton in northern ivory coas",
author = "Bassett, {Thomas J.}",
note = "Funding Information: Absent from this model of cotton development are many socio-cultural, 1 I would like to thank the Social Science Research Council and the American Council of Learned Societies for their support in funding my field research in Ivory Coast, Mali and Senegal. I also thank Marie-Helene Collion, Donald Crummey, Richard Roberts and Michael Watts for commenting on earlier drafts of this article. 2Contemporary accounts of cotton development in Ivory Coast, Cameroun and Togo, can be found respectively in A. Sawadogo, VAgriculture en Cote d'lvoire (Paris, 1977), R. Levrat,' La place du coton dans la vie des paysans du Nord-Cameroun', Cahiers d'Outre-mer, xxxvn, 145 (1984), 33-62 and A. Schwartz, Le paysan et la culture de coton au Togo (Paris, 1986). 3 IRCT (Institut de recherches du coton et des textiles exotiques) was founded in 1946 to conduct research and development on textile plants in France's colonies. CFDT (Compagnie francaise pour le developpement des fibres textiles) was created in 1946 as a joint venture between the French government and private textile interests as an extension service and production company to promote the improved varieties developed by IRCT. 4 A recent version of this model of cotton development is presented in J. Dequecker, 'Cultures industrielles et cultures vivrieres en Afrique occidentale', Afrique Contem-poraine, 120 (1982), 1-7. For a critique of the vent-for-surplus model in relation to cotton growing in Uganda, see J. Tosh, ' Lango agriculture during the early colonial period: Land and labour in a cash crop economy', J. Afr. Hist, xix, 3 (1978), 415-39. Copyright: Copyright 2016 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.",
year = "1988",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1017/S0021853700023677",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "267--284",
journal = "The Journal of African History",
issn = "0021-8537",
publisher = "Cambridge University Press",
number = "2",
}