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French West Africa
$29.20
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This is a reproduction edition from the original 1958 publication on French West Africa.
There have been a great many books on Africa since the ware but astonishingly few in English that deal with the vast and important tropical areas under French administration. As to the most extensive of these – French West Africa – the lack is particularly striking, contrasting as it does with the larger number of works concerning adjacent Nigeria and Ghana. The few studies of French West Africa produced thus far by British and American writers have been mostly in specialized periodicals, and no work on the Federation as a whole has been available to the English-reading public.
The authors have provided a general and reliable survey of the main political, economic, social and cultural developments in the whole territory of French West Africa, supplemented by an analysis which takes into account both official and non-official French and African viewpoints. Some historical background is provided – especially where it is helpful to the understanding of current developments – but the book’ emphasis is upon the rapid evolution of French West Africa, in many fields, since the end of the Second World War. While most welcome as a reference work for students, the book will also be read more widely for the light it casts on the role that the French West African group of territories may play in the future ‘Eurafrica.’
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the original work:
Title: French West Africa
Author: Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff
Publisher: Stanford University Press 1958
ISBN: 0804742561
The Emerging States of French Equatorial Africa
$28.69
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This is the first book in English dealing with the vast area of French Equatorial Africa, out of which have now been created the four autonomous republics, of Gabon, Tchad, Central Africa, and the Congo. The authors' emphasis is primarily on the current problems and recent history of the four new republics.
Not the least of these problems is the political ferment in the surrounding territories. The two northern republics, Tchad and Central African Republic, are adjacent to the Arab League countries of Sudan and Libya. Along the western flanks of Tchad, Gabon, and the Central African Republic are the former trust territory of Cameroun, now in a state of unrest; the republic of Niger, which may unite with the Ivory Coast and Volta republics; and Nigeria. In the south, the Congo Republic will inevitably be deeply affected by the profound changes taking place in the Belgian Congo.
In Part I the authors examine the former federation of states and analyze its administrative practices, civil and judicial institutions, political organizations, rural economy, industry and labor, communications, and welfare. Part II studies the political and economic development of the territories and the emergence of the four republics.
Uncertainty surrounds the future of all these new republics. The principal question is in regard to the shape that their former unity will take, should it survive. The present leaders of the four republics have refused to re-create a strong federal executive, but they have agreed to maintain a loose form of economic and technical cooperation, as well as some of the established cultural and judicial institutions. It remains to be seen whether this trend to cooperation will be strong enough to counteract the older, centrifugal forces of disunity.
Virginia Thompson and Richard Adloff are the authors of French West Africa (Stanford, 1958), and several other books.
This is a reproduction edition from a scanned copy of the following original edition:
Title The emerging states of French Equatorial Africa
Authors Virginia McLean Thompson, Richard Adloff
Edition 2, illustrated
Publisher Stanford University Press, 1960
ISBN 0804700516, 9780804700511
Length 595 pages
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Scarcity and Survival in Central America : Ecological Origins of the Soccer War
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“The great importance if Durham’s book lies precisely in its solid, data-based documentation of the fallaciousness of the argument that population density always explains resource scarcity.” American Anthropologist
In both the academic literature and the popular press, the so-called Soccer War between El Salvador and Honduras in 1969 is cited as a classic illustration of the problems of overpopulation. The conflict has been called the “demographic war” and a veritable “population explosion.” It has even been argues that the Soccer War represents in microcosm what may be in store for a world whose human population continues to increase at a rapid rate.
Despite the importance attached to the conflict as an example of population pressure, there has been no systematic attempt to evaluate the underlying assumptions of the explanation. The massive emigration of Salvadoreans to Honduras, for example, is widely conceded to have precipitated the war, but no one has demonstrated that this emigration was wholly or even chiefly a response to population pressure. Similarly, although it has been argued that the stream of Salvadoreans added significantly to Honduras’s own population problems, few authors have actually assessed the impact of the immigrants at the local or national level. An evaluation of these assumptions is the goal of this study.
Durham’s analysis is perhaps best described as a case study in human ecology – broadly defined as the study of the patterns and processes of human adaptation to environments. Because the patterns and processes of human adaptation in this world are not cleanly compartmentalized, studies in human ecology are legitimately approached from any number of disciplinary perspectives, including anthropology, population biology sociology, and demography. This study is no exception.
Introduction 1
Honduras , El Salvador , Soccer War
The Causes of Resource Scarcity in El Salvador 21
hectares , maize , E. A. Wilson
Scarcity and Survival in Tenancingo 63
Tenancingo , hectares , F-statistic
The Question of Resource Abundance in Honduras 102
Choluteca , square kilometers , maize
Scarcity Survival and Salvadoreans in Langue 127
sharecropped , Nacaome , Pan-American Highway
Conclusion 159
