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Twilight of an Industry in East Africa

Textile Manufacturing, 1830-1940

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Authors:
  1. Katharine Frederick

    1. Utrecht, The Netherlands

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Economic History (PEHS)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Introduction: Africa’s Piece of the Global Textile Puzzle

    • Katharine Frederick
    Pages 1-35

  3. An Industry Vanishes: Cotton Cloth Manufacturing in Malawi’s Lower Shire Valley, 1850–1930

    • Katharine Frederick
    Pages 37-67

  4. Rise of the Coastal Consumer: Coast-Side Drivers of East Africa’s Cotton Cloth Imports, 1830–1900

    • Katharine Frederick
    Pages 69-122

  5. The Limits of the Caravan Trade: Cloth Imports into Interior Central East Africa, c. 1850–1900

    • Katharine Frederick
    Pages 123-166

  6. Globalization or Colonial Taxation? Explaining the Decline of Textile Production in Ufipa, Tanzania, c. 1880–1940

    • Katharine Frederick
    Pages 167-203

  7. Drivers of Divergence: Textile Manufacturing in East and West Africa from the Early Modern Period to the Post-Colonial Era

    • Katharine Frederick
    Pages 205-239

  8. Conclusion: Global–Local Interactions and Industry in Sub-Saharan Africa

    • Katharine Frederick
    Pages 241-250

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 251-261
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About this book

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.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Utrecht, The Netherlands

    Katharine Frederick

About the author

Katharine Frederick is Assistant Professor and Postdoctoral Researcher at Utrecht University, The Netherlands, with a focus on the social and economic history of sub-Saharan Africa.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Twilight of an Industry in East Africa

  • Book Subtitle: Textile Manufacturing, 1830-1940

  • Authors: Katharine Frederick

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Economic History

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43920-0

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43919-4Published: 21 August 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-43922-4Published: 21 August 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-43920-0Published: 20 August 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2662-6497

  • Series E-ISSN: 2662-6500

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XIX, 261

  • Number of Illustrations: 39 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Economic History, African Economics

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