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Cotton Booms, Cotton Busts, and the Civil War in West Africa

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 September 2011

Andrew Zimmerman
Andrew Zimmerman*
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George Washington University
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azimmer@gwu.edu
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The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , October 2011 , pp. 454 - 463
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Copyright © Society for Historians of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 2011

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1 This essay incorporates material from Zimmerman, Andrew, Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (Princeton, 2010)Google Scholar, and from a new project on the global history of the American Civil War.

2 Karl Marx to Friedrich Engels, Jan. 11, 1860, Gesamtausgabe (MEGA2) (Berlin, 1972), III/10, 152–53Google Scholar. Unless otherwise noted, all transtations are by the author.

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