Twilight of an Industry in East Africa
Textile Manufacturing, 1830-1940
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Beschreibung
Cotton textile industries vanished from much of East Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book investigates the underlying causes of industrial arrest in the region through a series of in-depth case studies. Findings are considered in light of existing studies on comparatively more resilient textile centers elsewhere on the continent to derive insights into the determinants of differing industrial trajectories across sub-Saharan Africa. The author argues that scholars have placed undue weight on global forces as the primary drivers of industrial decline in the Global South. Rather, this book reveals how local factors – principally demographic, geographic, and institutional features – interacted with external forces to influence unique regional outcomes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as sub-Saharan African was increasingly integrated into global trade networks and European colonial empires.
Cotton textile industries vanished from much of East Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This book investigates the underlying causes of industrial arrest in the region through a series of in-depth case studies. Findings are considered in light of existing studies on comparatively more resilient textile centers elsewhere on the continent to derive insights into the determinants of differing industrial trajectories across sub-Saharan Africa. The author argues that scholars have placed undue weight on global forces as the primary drivers of industrial decline in the Global South. Rather, this book reveals how local factors – principally demographic, geographic, and institutional features – interacted with external forces to influence unique regional outcomes during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as sub-Saharan African was increasingly integrated into global trade networks and European colonial empires.
Explores the causes of a decline in textile manufacturing in much of East Africa during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries Compares cases of industrial decline in central and southern East Africa with more resilient textile industries in northern East Africa and West Africa Highlights the role of local factors in driving region-specific industrial outcomes
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Katharine Frederick
Themen in »Twilight of an Industry in East Africa«
Deindustrialization in East Africa Colonization Cloth industries in East Africa Industrial decline Industrial development in sub-Saharan Africa Nineteenth century cloth production