Cocoa Pioneer Fronts since 1800: The Role of Smallholders, Planters and Merchants

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Cocoa Pioneer Fronts: The Historical Determinants....Pages 1-22
The Eastern Venezuela Pioneer Front, 1830s–1930s: The Role of the Corsican Trade Network....Pages 23-44
The Trinidad Cocoa Industry and the Struggle for Crown Land during the Nineteenth Century....Pages 45-64
Ecuadorian Cocoa Production and Trade 1840–1925....Pages 65-85
A Cocoa Pioneer Front, 1890–1914: Planters, Merchants and Government Policy in Bahia....Pages 86-104
Equatorial Guinea: The Struggle for a Cocoa Economy, 1880–1930....Pages 105-118
The Emergence of Duala Cocoa Planters under German Rule in Cameroon: A Case Study of Entrepreneurship....Pages 119-136
Cocoa Farming in Cameroon, c. 1914 – c. 1960: Land and Labour....Pages 137-153
Mode of Production or Mode of Cultivation: Explaining the Failure of European Cocoa Planters in Competition with African Farmers in Colonial Ghana....Pages 154-175
Côte d’Ivoire’s Pioneer Fronts: Historical and Political Determinants of the Spread of Cocoa Cultivation....Pages 176-194
The Cocoa Frontier in Madagascar, the Comoro Islands and Réunion, c. 1820–1970....Pages 195-211
Smallholder Cocoa in Indonesia: Why a Cocoa Boom in Sulawesi?....Pages 212-231
Back Matter....Pages 233-247