The Haters

by Jesse Andrews

Overview

This study examines the development ideology and practice as it evolved during the Niger irrigation project between the 1920s and 1960s. it describes the connection between practice, policy, and ideology—specifically between the practices of settlers, the farming and marketing policies, and French social evolutionist theory. Chapters describe neomercantilism, social welfare, the recruitment of settlers, poverty, farming and marketing, and farmer resistance. Van Beusekom teaches history at Trinity College.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781419723704
Publisher:	Amulet Paperbacks
Publication date:	04/04/2017
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	51,086
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	13 Years

About the Author

Monica van Beusekom is Assistant Professor of History at Trinity College, Connecticut.

Table of Contents

	Illustrations	ix
	Note on Orthography	xiii
	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	xix
1	Rice and Cotton: Neomercantilism, Social Welfare, and the Shaping of the Office du Niger	1
2	Colonisation Indigene: French Rural Development Ideology at the Office du Niger, 1920-1940	33
3	The Recruitment of Settlers for the Office du Niger	57
4	Coercion and Poverty at the Office du Niger	86
5	Negotiating Farming and Marketing Practices at the Office du Niger	118
6	Participation Contested and Redefined: Farmer Resistance and Ideas about Development at the Office du Niger	152
	Conclusion	187
Appendix	A Note on Sources	195
	Bibliography	199
	Index	211