Cotton and Race Across the Atlantic

<p>During the first two decades of the twentieth century demand for raw cotton in Europe Asia and America outstripped production as African Americans migrated away from Southern cotton fields. Consequently industrialists in Europe turned to Africa for new sources of cotton.. This volume documents the efforts by British financiers and colonial officials along with some African-American allies to bring the American model of cotton production to colonial Africa. In a narrative featuring a host of characters -- including British entrepreneurs African kings and African-American scientists -- author Jonathan Robins weaves together events in Africa Britain and the American South. Robins chronicles the origins failings and eventual evolution of Britain's colonial cotton project revealing the global forces and actors that moved and transformed the international cotton industry. Jonathan E. Robins is assistant professor of global history at Michigan Technological University.</p>