The Nigerian cocoa industry and the international economy in the 1930s : a world-systems approach / by Olisa Muojama.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 1, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Intro; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; Chapter One; The International Economy; Africa in the Crisis and Catastrophe of the 1930s; A Note on Sources and Methodology; Chapters in Brief; Chapter Two; The Rise of the World Cocoa Trade; The Penetration of European Capital and the Beginnings of the Cocoa Culture in Nigeria; Cocoa Production and Processing in Colonial Nigeria; The Effects of Cocoa Production on Pre-colonial and Colonial Nigeria; The Organization of the Cocoa Trade in Colonial Nigeria; Conclusion; Chapter Three

The Export Trade in NigeriaThe Nigerian Cocoa Industry during World War I, 1914-1918; The Nigerian Cocoa Industry in the First Phase of the Inter-war Years, 1919-1929; Conclusion; Chapter Four; The Great Depression of the 1930s; The Depression and the General Fall and Fluctuationsin the World Cocoa Prices in the 1930s; Conclusion; Chapter Five; Price Volatility, Stabilization and the InternationalCommodity Restrictions; The Fall in the World Cocoa Prices and the Callfor the International Cocoa Restrictions

The West African Cocoa Industry and the Failure of the International Cocoa Restriction Scheme in the 1930sConclusion; Chapter Six; Keynesianism and the Consolidation of Deglobalization; The Fluctuations in the World Cocoa Prices in the 1930s; The Effects of the Fluctuations in the World Cocoa Pricesof the 1930s on the Nigerian Cocoa Farmers; Conclusion; Chapter Seven; Displacing "the Irrational" Elements; The African Reactions to Trade Concentrations; The Cocoa Hold-Up of 1937-38; Conclusion; Chapter Eight; Conclusion; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index

Periodic cycles and waves are characteristics of global capitalism. The contraction in world trade during the Great Depression of the 1930s stands out as the strongest adverse shock to international trade in modern history. This book uses the Nigerian cocoa industry's encounter with the world economy of the 1930s to knit together a gamut of themes ranging from the social formations of production to the forces of demand and supply, and price fluctuations and stabilization, as well as the protest movements against monopoly capitalism. It examines the Nigerian cocoa industry within the internatio.

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