Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South

(Part of the America in the World Series)

by Andrew Zimmerman

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In 1901, the Tuskegee Institute, founded by Booker T. Washington, sent an expedition to the German colony of Togo in West Africa, with the purpose of transforming the region into a cotton economy similar to that of the post-Reconstruction American South. Alabama in Africa explores the politics of labor, sexuality, and race behind this endeavor, and the economic, political, and intellectual links connecting Germany, Africa, and the southern...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0691155860

ISBN13:9780691155869

Release Date:May 2012

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:416 Pages

Weight:0.60 lbs.

Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Related Subjects

20th Century Africa African-American Studies Europe Germany History Modern (16th-21st Centuries) Politics & Social Sciences Social Sciences Specific Demographics

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