The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa: Côte d'Ivoire, 1880-1995The development of the cotton economy in West Africa is an African success story. This enduring agricultural revolution was brought about by tens of thousands of small scale peasant farmers. Drawing on archival research, oral histories, and long term fieldwork on the small farms of northern Ivory Coast, this book places the rural African actors center stage and brings out the complex and manifold ways in which they shaped farming systems and