Twilight of an Industry in East Africa: Textile Manufacturing, 1830-1940
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| 505 | 8 | |a Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Twilight of an Industry in East Africa -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Africa's Piece of the Global Textile Puzzle -- 1.1 Deindustrialization in East Africa -- 1.2 Globalization and Industrial Decline -- 1.3 The Case Against Import Competition -- 1.4 Bringing in the Local -- 1.5 Methods and Sources -- 1.6 Organization of the Book -- Appendix: Cloth Imports into East and West Africa, 1850-1941-Sources and Methods -- Introductory Note -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Imports Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- References -- Chapter 2: An Industry Vanishes: Cotton Cloth Manufacturing in Malawi's Lower Shire Valley, 1850-1930 -- 2.1 The Disappearance of Mang'anja Cloth -- 2.2 Global Trade: Driver of Industrial Decline? -- 2.3 Slave-Raiding and Socio-Economic Disorder -- 2.4 The Role of Foreign Imports Revisited -- 2.5 Land and Labor in the Lower Shire Valley -- The Logic and Impact of Cash-Crop Production -- 2.6 The Return of Cotton -- A Renaissance of Local Cloth? -- 2.7 Evaluating Global and Local Factors -- References -- Chapter 3: Rise of the Coastal Consumer: Coast-Side Drivers of East Africa's Cotton Cloth Imports, 1830-1900 -- 3.1 Global Commerce in East Africa -- 3.2 Competition and the Cloth Trade -- The Price of Competitive Trade -- Northern and Southern Markets -- A Supply-Demand Incongruity -- American Munitions, the Slave Trade, and Cloves -- The Decline of American Trade Dominance on Zanzibar -- 3.3 The Expansion of Coastal Exports -- The Coastal Export Boom of the 1870s -- 3.4 Coastal Consumption Possibilities -- Slave Consumption on the Clove Islands -- Consumption on the Mainland Coast and Coastal Hinterland -- 3.5 Indian Cloth: A Quality-Quantity Tradeoff -- The Limits of Imperial Influence | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 3.6 Textile Manufacturing on Zanzibar -- 3.7 Demand and Consumption: Coast vs. Interior -- Appendix 1: Cloth Imports into East Africa by Origin, 1836-1900-Sources and Methods -- Introductory Note -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Imports by Origin Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- Appendix 2: Unit Price Per Yard of Unbleached Cloth at Zanzibar, 1836-1900-Sources and Methods -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Prices Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- References -- Chapter 4: The Limits of the Caravan Trade: Cloth Imports into Interior Central East Africa, c. 1850-1900 -- 4.1 Imports in the Deep Interior -- 4.2 Cloth as Currency -- The Exchange Virtues of Merekani -- Complementary Commodity Currencies -- 4.3 Interior Ivory: A Coastal Boon -- Interior Players in the Long-Distance Caravan System -- The Coastal Advantage -- 4.4 Transportation and Transaction Costs -- Tribute and Provisioning -- Porter Wages -- Peak and Decline of the Central East African Ivory Trade -- 4.5 Cloth and the Slave Trade -- 4.6 Domestic Cloth Industries -- 4.7 Taking Stock of Cloth Imports -- References -- Chapter 5: Globalization or Colonial Taxation? Explaining the Decline of Textile Production in Ufipa, Tanzania, c. 1880-1940 -- 5.1 Global Integration and Local Production -- 5.2 Nineteenth-Century Trade and Industry -- Integration into the Long-Distance Caravan System -- The Benefits of Trade -- Declining Prosperity, Increasing Extraction -- 5.3 Industrial Decline: A Function of Price? -- Relative Prices: Imports vs. Seketa Cloth -- 5.4 Colonial Integration and Transformation -- Cash-Based Taxation and Labor Recruitment -- Industrial Implications of Long-Distance Migration -- Relative Resilience in the Rukwa Valley -- 5.5 Imports as a Motivation to Migrate? | |
| 505 | 8 | |a Fallacy of the Substitution Assumption -- 5.6 The Evaporation of Industrial Skills -- The Rise of Competitive Imports -- 5.7 Local Consequences of Global Ambitions -- References -- Chapter 6: Drivers of Divergence: Textile Manufacturing in East and West Africa from the Early Modern Period to the Post-Colonial Era -- 6.1 Imports and Industry in East and West Africa -- 6.2 The Relative Antiquity of Textile Production -- The East-West Spread of Textile Traditions -- Delayed Development South of the Horn -- 6.3 Factor Endowments and Industry -- Diversity of Endowments in East Africa -- Environmental Roots of West African Exchange Networks -- 6.4 Industry-Stimulating Institutions -- Cloth Currency -- Centralized States and Pro-Industry Policies -- 6.5 Global Trade: Bane or Boon? -- Cash Crops and Industrial Expansion -- The Effects of Imported Manufactures -- 6.6 Colonial Rule and Local Agency -- The Failure of "Cotton Imperialism" in British Nigeria -- 6.7 Manufacturing in the Twentieth Century -- 6.8 The Centrality of Local Conditions -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Global-Local Interactions and Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 7.1 Bringing Local Factors to the Fore -- 7.2 Determinants of Industrial Outcomes -- Local Structural Conditions -- Time-Dependent External Forces -- 7.3 African Industry: Past, Present, Future -- References -- Index | |
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| contents | Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Twilight of an Industry in East Africa -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Africa's Piece of the Global Textile Puzzle -- 1.1 Deindustrialization in East Africa -- 1.2 Globalization and Industrial Decline -- 1.3 The Case Against Import Competition -- 1.4 Bringing in the Local -- 1.5 Methods and Sources -- 1.6 Organization of the Book -- Appendix: Cloth Imports into East and West Africa, 1850-1941-Sources and Methods -- Introductory Note -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Imports Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- References -- Chapter 2: An Industry Vanishes: Cotton Cloth Manufacturing in Malawi's Lower Shire Valley, 1850-1930 -- 2.1 The Disappearance of Mang'anja Cloth -- 2.2 Global Trade: Driver of Industrial Decline? -- 2.3 Slave-Raiding and Socio-Economic Disorder -- 2.4 The Role of Foreign Imports Revisited -- 2.5 Land and Labor in the Lower Shire Valley -- The Logic and Impact of Cash-Crop Production -- 2.6 The Return of Cotton -- A Renaissance of Local Cloth? -- 2.7 Evaluating Global and Local Factors -- References -- Chapter 3: Rise of the Coastal Consumer: Coast-Side Drivers of East Africa's Cotton Cloth Imports, 1830-1900 -- 3.1 Global Commerce in East Africa -- 3.2 Competition and the Cloth Trade -- The Price of Competitive Trade -- Northern and Southern Markets -- A Supply-Demand Incongruity -- American Munitions, the Slave Trade, and Cloves -- The Decline of American Trade Dominance on Zanzibar -- 3.3 The Expansion of Coastal Exports -- The Coastal Export Boom of the 1870s -- 3.4 Coastal Consumption Possibilities -- Slave Consumption on the Clove Islands -- Consumption on the Mainland Coast and Coastal Hinterland -- 3.5 Indian Cloth: A Quality-Quantity Tradeoff -- The Limits of Imperial Influence 3.6 Textile Manufacturing on Zanzibar -- 3.7 Demand and Consumption: Coast vs. Interior -- Appendix 1: Cloth Imports into East Africa by Origin, 1836-1900-Sources and Methods -- Introductory Note -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Imports by Origin Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- Appendix 2: Unit Price Per Yard of Unbleached Cloth at Zanzibar, 1836-1900-Sources and Methods -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Prices Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- References -- Chapter 4: The Limits of the Caravan Trade: Cloth Imports into Interior Central East Africa, c. 1850-1900 -- 4.1 Imports in the Deep Interior -- 4.2 Cloth as Currency -- The Exchange Virtues of Merekani -- Complementary Commodity Currencies -- 4.3 Interior Ivory: A Coastal Boon -- Interior Players in the Long-Distance Caravan System -- The Coastal Advantage -- 4.4 Transportation and Transaction Costs -- Tribute and Provisioning -- Porter Wages -- Peak and Decline of the Central East African Ivory Trade -- 4.5 Cloth and the Slave Trade -- 4.6 Domestic Cloth Industries -- 4.7 Taking Stock of Cloth Imports -- References -- Chapter 5: Globalization or Colonial Taxation? Explaining the Decline of Textile Production in Ufipa, Tanzania, c. 1880-1940 -- 5.1 Global Integration and Local Production -- 5.2 Nineteenth-Century Trade and Industry -- Integration into the Long-Distance Caravan System -- The Benefits of Trade -- Declining Prosperity, Increasing Extraction -- 5.3 Industrial Decline: A Function of Price? -- Relative Prices: Imports vs. Seketa Cloth -- 5.4 Colonial Integration and Transformation -- Cash-Based Taxation and Labor Recruitment -- Industrial Implications of Long-Distance Migration -- Relative Resilience in the Rukwa Valley -- 5.5 Imports as a Motivation to Migrate? Fallacy of the Substitution Assumption -- 5.6 The Evaporation of Industrial Skills -- The Rise of Competitive Imports -- 5.7 Local Consequences of Global Ambitions -- References -- Chapter 6: Drivers of Divergence: Textile Manufacturing in East and West Africa from the Early Modern Period to the Post-Colonial Era -- 6.1 Imports and Industry in East and West Africa -- 6.2 The Relative Antiquity of Textile Production -- The East-West Spread of Textile Traditions -- Delayed Development South of the Horn -- 6.3 Factor Endowments and Industry -- Diversity of Endowments in East Africa -- Environmental Roots of West African Exchange Networks -- 6.4 Industry-Stimulating Institutions -- Cloth Currency -- Centralized States and Pro-Industry Policies -- 6.5 Global Trade: Bane or Boon? -- Cash Crops and Industrial Expansion -- The Effects of Imported Manufactures -- 6.6 Colonial Rule and Local Agency -- The Failure of "Cotton Imperialism" in British Nigeria -- 6.7 Manufacturing in the Twentieth Century -- 6.8 The Centrality of Local Conditions -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Global-Local Interactions and Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 7.1 Bringing Local Factors to the Fore -- 7.2 Determinants of Industrial Outcomes -- Local Structural Conditions -- Time-Dependent External Forces -- 7.3 African Industry: Past, Present, Future -- References -- Index |
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| spelling | Frederick, Katharine Verfasser aut Twilight of an Industry in East Africa Textile Manufacturing, 1830-1940 Cham Springer International Publishing AG 2020 ©2020 1 Online-Ressource (274 pages) txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Palgrave Studies in Economic History Ser Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Twilight of an Industry in East Africa -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Africa's Piece of the Global Textile Puzzle -- 1.1 Deindustrialization in East Africa -- 1.2 Globalization and Industrial Decline -- 1.3 The Case Against Import Competition -- 1.4 Bringing in the Local -- 1.5 Methods and Sources -- 1.6 Organization of the Book -- Appendix: Cloth Imports into East and West Africa, 1850-1941-Sources and Methods -- Introductory Note -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Imports Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- References -- Chapter 2: An Industry Vanishes: Cotton Cloth Manufacturing in Malawi's Lower Shire Valley, 1850-1930 -- 2.1 The Disappearance of Mang'anja Cloth -- 2.2 Global Trade: Driver of Industrial Decline? -- 2.3 Slave-Raiding and Socio-Economic Disorder -- 2.4 The Role of Foreign Imports Revisited -- 2.5 Land and Labor in the Lower Shire Valley -- The Logic and Impact of Cash-Crop Production -- 2.6 The Return of Cotton -- A Renaissance of Local Cloth? -- 2.7 Evaluating Global and Local Factors -- References -- Chapter 3: Rise of the Coastal Consumer: Coast-Side Drivers of East Africa's Cotton Cloth Imports, 1830-1900 -- 3.1 Global Commerce in East Africa -- 3.2 Competition and the Cloth Trade -- The Price of Competitive Trade -- Northern and Southern Markets -- A Supply-Demand Incongruity -- American Munitions, the Slave Trade, and Cloves -- The Decline of American Trade Dominance on Zanzibar -- 3.3 The Expansion of Coastal Exports -- The Coastal Export Boom of the 1870s -- 3.4 Coastal Consumption Possibilities -- Slave Consumption on the Clove Islands -- Consumption on the Mainland Coast and Coastal Hinterland -- 3.5 Indian Cloth: A Quality-Quantity Tradeoff -- The Limits of Imperial Influence 3.6 Textile Manufacturing on Zanzibar -- 3.7 Demand and Consumption: Coast vs. Interior -- Appendix 1: Cloth Imports into East Africa by Origin, 1836-1900-Sources and Methods -- Introductory Note -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Imports by Origin Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- Appendix 2: Unit Price Per Yard of Unbleached Cloth at Zanzibar, 1836-1900-Sources and Methods -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Prices Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- References -- Chapter 4: The Limits of the Caravan Trade: Cloth Imports into Interior Central East Africa, c. 1850-1900 -- 4.1 Imports in the Deep Interior -- 4.2 Cloth as Currency -- The Exchange Virtues of Merekani -- Complementary Commodity Currencies -- 4.3 Interior Ivory: A Coastal Boon -- Interior Players in the Long-Distance Caravan System -- The Coastal Advantage -- 4.4 Transportation and Transaction Costs -- Tribute and Provisioning -- Porter Wages -- Peak and Decline of the Central East African Ivory Trade -- 4.5 Cloth and the Slave Trade -- 4.6 Domestic Cloth Industries -- 4.7 Taking Stock of Cloth Imports -- References -- Chapter 5: Globalization or Colonial Taxation? Explaining the Decline of Textile Production in Ufipa, Tanzania, c. 1880-1940 -- 5.1 Global Integration and Local Production -- 5.2 Nineteenth-Century Trade and Industry -- Integration into the Long-Distance Caravan System -- The Benefits of Trade -- Declining Prosperity, Increasing Extraction -- 5.3 Industrial Decline: A Function of Price? -- Relative Prices: Imports vs. Seketa Cloth -- 5.4 Colonial Integration and Transformation -- Cash-Based Taxation and Labor Recruitment -- Industrial Implications of Long-Distance Migration -- Relative Resilience in the Rukwa Valley -- 5.5 Imports as a Motivation to Migrate? Fallacy of the Substitution Assumption -- 5.6 The Evaporation of Industrial Skills -- The Rise of Competitive Imports -- 5.7 Local Consequences of Global Ambitions -- References -- Chapter 6: Drivers of Divergence: Textile Manufacturing in East and West Africa from the Early Modern Period to the Post-Colonial Era -- 6.1 Imports and Industry in East and West Africa -- 6.2 The Relative Antiquity of Textile Production -- The East-West Spread of Textile Traditions -- Delayed Development South of the Horn -- 6.3 Factor Endowments and Industry -- Diversity of Endowments in East Africa -- Environmental Roots of West African Exchange Networks -- 6.4 Industry-Stimulating Institutions -- Cloth Currency -- Centralized States and Pro-Industry Policies -- 6.5 Global Trade: Bane or Boon? -- Cash Crops and Industrial Expansion -- The Effects of Imported Manufactures -- 6.6 Colonial Rule and Local Agency -- The Failure of "Cotton Imperialism" in British Nigeria -- 6.7 Manufacturing in the Twentieth Century -- 6.8 The Centrality of Local Conditions -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Global-Local Interactions and Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 7.1 Bringing Local Factors to the Fore -- 7.2 Determinants of Industrial Outcomes -- Local Structural Conditions -- Time-Dependent External Forces -- 7.3 African Industry: Past, Present, Future -- References -- Index Cotton textile industry Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Frederick, Katharine Twilight of an Industry in East Africa Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2020 9783030439194 |
| spellingShingle | Frederick, Katharine Twilight of an Industry in East Africa Textile Manufacturing, 1830-1940 Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Praise for Twilight of an Industry in East Africa -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Africa's Piece of the Global Textile Puzzle -- 1.1 Deindustrialization in East Africa -- 1.2 Globalization and Industrial Decline -- 1.3 The Case Against Import Competition -- 1.4 Bringing in the Local -- 1.5 Methods and Sources -- 1.6 Organization of the Book -- Appendix: Cloth Imports into East and West Africa, 1850-1941-Sources and Methods -- Introductory Note -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Imports Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- References -- Chapter 2: An Industry Vanishes: Cotton Cloth Manufacturing in Malawi's Lower Shire Valley, 1850-1930 -- 2.1 The Disappearance of Mang'anja Cloth -- 2.2 Global Trade: Driver of Industrial Decline? -- 2.3 Slave-Raiding and Socio-Economic Disorder -- 2.4 The Role of Foreign Imports Revisited -- 2.5 Land and Labor in the Lower Shire Valley -- The Logic and Impact of Cash-Crop Production -- 2.6 The Return of Cotton -- A Renaissance of Local Cloth? -- 2.7 Evaluating Global and Local Factors -- References -- Chapter 3: Rise of the Coastal Consumer: Coast-Side Drivers of East Africa's Cotton Cloth Imports, 1830-1900 -- 3.1 Global Commerce in East Africa -- 3.2 Competition and the Cloth Trade -- The Price of Competitive Trade -- Northern and Southern Markets -- A Supply-Demand Incongruity -- American Munitions, the Slave Trade, and Cloves -- The Decline of American Trade Dominance on Zanzibar -- 3.3 The Expansion of Coastal Exports -- The Coastal Export Boom of the 1870s -- 3.4 Coastal Consumption Possibilities -- Slave Consumption on the Clove Islands -- Consumption on the Mainland Coast and Coastal Hinterland -- 3.5 Indian Cloth: A Quality-Quantity Tradeoff -- The Limits of Imperial Influence 3.6 Textile Manufacturing on Zanzibar -- 3.7 Demand and Consumption: Coast vs. Interior -- Appendix 1: Cloth Imports into East Africa by Origin, 1836-1900-Sources and Methods -- Introductory Note -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Imports by Origin Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- Appendix 2: Unit Price Per Yard of Unbleached Cloth at Zanzibar, 1836-1900-Sources and Methods -- List of Primary and Secondary Sources from Which Cloth Prices Were Derived -- Archives -- Published Sources and Literature -- References -- Chapter 4: The Limits of the Caravan Trade: Cloth Imports into Interior Central East Africa, c. 1850-1900 -- 4.1 Imports in the Deep Interior -- 4.2 Cloth as Currency -- The Exchange Virtues of Merekani -- Complementary Commodity Currencies -- 4.3 Interior Ivory: A Coastal Boon -- Interior Players in the Long-Distance Caravan System -- The Coastal Advantage -- 4.4 Transportation and Transaction Costs -- Tribute and Provisioning -- Porter Wages -- Peak and Decline of the Central East African Ivory Trade -- 4.5 Cloth and the Slave Trade -- 4.6 Domestic Cloth Industries -- 4.7 Taking Stock of Cloth Imports -- References -- Chapter 5: Globalization or Colonial Taxation? Explaining the Decline of Textile Production in Ufipa, Tanzania, c. 1880-1940 -- 5.1 Global Integration and Local Production -- 5.2 Nineteenth-Century Trade and Industry -- Integration into the Long-Distance Caravan System -- The Benefits of Trade -- Declining Prosperity, Increasing Extraction -- 5.3 Industrial Decline: A Function of Price? -- Relative Prices: Imports vs. Seketa Cloth -- 5.4 Colonial Integration and Transformation -- Cash-Based Taxation and Labor Recruitment -- Industrial Implications of Long-Distance Migration -- Relative Resilience in the Rukwa Valley -- 5.5 Imports as a Motivation to Migrate? Fallacy of the Substitution Assumption -- 5.6 The Evaporation of Industrial Skills -- The Rise of Competitive Imports -- 5.7 Local Consequences of Global Ambitions -- References -- Chapter 6: Drivers of Divergence: Textile Manufacturing in East and West Africa from the Early Modern Period to the Post-Colonial Era -- 6.1 Imports and Industry in East and West Africa -- 6.2 The Relative Antiquity of Textile Production -- The East-West Spread of Textile Traditions -- Delayed Development South of the Horn -- 6.3 Factor Endowments and Industry -- Diversity of Endowments in East Africa -- Environmental Roots of West African Exchange Networks -- 6.4 Industry-Stimulating Institutions -- Cloth Currency -- Centralized States and Pro-Industry Policies -- 6.5 Global Trade: Bane or Boon? -- Cash Crops and Industrial Expansion -- The Effects of Imported Manufactures -- 6.6 Colonial Rule and Local Agency -- The Failure of "Cotton Imperialism" in British Nigeria -- 6.7 Manufacturing in the Twentieth Century -- 6.8 The Centrality of Local Conditions -- References -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Global-Local Interactions and Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 7.1 Bringing Local Factors to the Fore -- 7.2 Determinants of Industrial Outcomes -- Local Structural Conditions -- Time-Dependent External Forces -- 7.3 African Industry: Past, Present, Future -- References -- Index Cotton textile industry |
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