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Contents List of Illustrations List of Tables Preface Note on Names Maps Note on the Maps 1 Introduction Part I. Context and Concepts 2 Theories and Debates: Some Tools for Thinking about the History of Property and Markets in Asante and Beyond 3 Asante, 1807-1956: The State, Output and Resources 4 The Changing Relationship Between Inputs and Output, 1807-1956 Part II. Social Relations of Production and Trade, 1807-1896: Establishing a Description of Absent and Imperfect Factor Markets 5 Land Tenure, 1807-1896 6 The Mobilization of Labour, 1807-1896 Appendix to Chapter 6: Nineteenth-Century Slave Prices 7 Capital and Credit, 1807-1896 Part III. Slavery as Hobson's Choice: An Analysis of the Interaction of Markets and Coercion in Asante's Era of 'Legitimate Commerce', 1807-1896 8 Factor Markets Without Free Labour: The Nieboer Hypothesis and Asante Slavery and Pawnship, 1807-1896 9 Gender and Kinship Aspects of the Social Relations of Production, 1807-1896 10 Exploitation and Welfare: Class and 'Social Efficiency' Implications of the Property Rights Regime, 1807-1896 Part IV. The Decline of Coercion in the Factor Markets of Colonial Asante: Cocoa and the Ending of Slavery, Pawnship and Corvée, 1896-c.1950 11 Why Was Prohibition So Long Delayed? The Nature and Motives of the Gradualism of the British 'Men on the Spot' 12 The Decline of Coerced Labour and Property in Persons in Practice: Change from Above and from Below in Colonial Asante, 1896-1950 13 Cocoa and the Ending of Labour Coercion, c.1900-c.1950 Part V. Social Relations of Production and Trade, 1908-1956: Towards Integrated Factor Markets? 14 Land Tenure: What Kind of Transformation under Cash-Cropping and Colonial Rule? 15 Capital and Credit: Locking Farms to Credit 16 Free Labour: Family Workers, the Spread of Wage Contracts, and the Rise of Sharecropping Part VI. Freedom and Forest Rent, 1908-1956 17 Land in a Tree-Farm Economy 18 Capital in a Tree-Farm Economy 19 Free Labour: Why the Newly Emerged Wage Regular Wage Contracts Were Eclipsed by Sharecropping 20 Conclusion Abbreviations Used in the Notes Notes References Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Ashanti (Kingdom) -- Economic conditions -- 19th century.
Ashanti (Kingdom) -- Economic conditions -- 20th century.
Land tenure -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 19th century.
Land tenure -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 20th century.
Labor -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 19th century.
Labor -- Ashanti (Kingdom) -- History -- 20th century.