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II. KEEP PROFITS FROM BEING INVESTED

MENU: 2. KEEP PROFITS FROM INVESTMENT


WHY THAT WAS NECESSARY AND HOW IT WAS DONE 

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In brief

  • One can't bring in the harvest alone
  • Curbs on gain that villagers impose
  • The grandiose destruction of wealth
  • Elders, chiefs and kings
  • Ways whose logic escapes us 
  • Were (are) real aims recognized? 
  • Awareness of the economic base...
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One can't bring in the harvest alone... 



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MENU

  • 0. "Follow the money"
  • 0.1. Background as historian of Africa
  • 0.2. Why choose Africa?
  • 0.3. Contents
  • 1. HINTERLNDS: FAST GROWTH DAWNS
  • 2. KEEP PROFITS FROM INVESTMENT
  • 2.1. One can't bring in the harvest alone
  • 2.2. Curbs on gain that villagers impose
  • 2.3. The grandiose destruction of wealth
  • 2.4. Elders chiefs & kings
  • 2.5. Ways whose logic escapes us
  • 2.6. Are the real aims recognized?
  • 2.7. Awareness of the economic base...
  • 3. CURB GRWTH: KINGS & RITUAL WAR
  • 3.1. Kings maintain the status quo
  • 3.1.1. Kngs gather wealth & mke it circulate
  • 3.1.2. "Absurd" succession practices
  • 3.1.3. Constraints of African kings...
  • 3.1.4. European kings' constraints
  • 3.1.5. Detour: Christ from shepherd to king
  • 3.1.6. Commercial peoples' subordination
  • 3.2. RITUALIZED WAR BRAKES GRWTH
  • 3.2.1. Traditional raids: violent & limited
  • 3.2.2. French warfare has similar aims
  • 3.2.3. Valor: nobles react to new capitalists
  • 3.2.4. Feudal valor / carnage WWI?
  • 4. The African past revisited
  • 4.1. The choice of a backwater
  • 4.2. CYCLES OF GROWTH. VIOLENCE...
  • 4.2.1. Legendary empires
  • 4.2.2. Ec. change & sign of future
  • 4.2.3. Another upheaval. Kolas. Routes.
  • 4.2.4. Traders & textiles come to Djimini
  • 4.2.5. Communities that elders lead
  • 4.2.6. Divisible currency brings upheaval
  • 4.2.7. Djimini gives struggle close-up
  • 4.3. CROWDS SWEEP THE SAHEL
  • 4.3.1. Change ripples down from north
  • 4.3.2. Explorer taken for the messiah
  • 4.3.3. "Humble show masters their teeth"
  • 4.3.4. A theocracy amps up growth...
  • 4.3.5. ...then contains it
  • 4.4. Djimini violence returns
  • 4.4.1. New forces menace
  • 4.4.2. Senufo fight back
  • 4.4.3. Warlords & big-time traders
  • 4.5. PRODUCERS WIN THEN CRUMBLE
  • 4.5.1. Intensive slavery & economic growth
  • 4.5.2. Adapting Islam to need for labor
  • 4.5.3. Samory's legend skips the raided
  • 4.5.4. Detour: Nationalist history...
  • 4.5.5. Samory & the Senufo Judas
  • 4.5.6. Col. conqust does nt bring ec contrl
  • 4.5.7. Slaves freed. Economies collapse.
  • 4.5.8. Islam: a non-Western topic?
  • 4.5.9. AFRICANS TAKE CENTER STAGE
  • 5. SAME METHOD FOR FRANCE
  • 5.1. SIMILAR CYCLES OF CHANGE
  • 5.2. Growth breaks loose
  • 5.3. GROWTH & "WARS OF RELIGION"
  • 5.3.1. Violence nothing to do with religion
  • 5.3.2. "Season" of Protestant massacre
  • 5.3.3. Communities where people intertwine
  • 5.3.4. Trad. faith defends brakes on gain
  • 5.3.4. Waterless Versailles
  • 5.3.5. The new faith shatters them
  • 5.3.7. Detour: a faith specific to France
  • 5.4. ABSOLTE MONARCHY TAKES OVER
  • 5.4.1. Growing economies - stronger kings
  • 5.4.2. Stronger kings disperse wealth
  • 5.4.3. Detour: Fr. monarchy's lasting éclat
  • 5.4.4. French Baroque's sobriety
  • 5.4.5. Spain: no civil war Prots no capitalsts
  • 5.4.6. Defeatng archaic opponents of grwth
  • 5.5. SUN KING: ANTI-CAPITALIST
  • 5.5.1.The new king taxes & spends
  • 5.5.2. The cost of royal mistresses
  • 5.5.3. Monarchy's palaces
  • 5.5.5. The logic of pharaonic spending
  • 5.5.6. Outlawing Prots. brngs caps. to heel
  • 5.5.8. Detour: rescue of Jews
  • 5.5.9. Controls on profits start to crack
  • 6. HISTORY THAT ILLUMINATES

THIS CHAPTER'S TITLES

  • ▼  2025 (65)
    • ▼  August (13)
      • "FOLLOW THE MONEY"... 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SUR...
      • O.1. WHY CHOOSE AFRICA?
      • 0.1. MY BACKGROUND AS A HISTORIAN OF AFRICA
      • 0.3. CONTENTS
      • I. HINTERLANDS AT THE DAWN OF SUDDEN ECONOMIC GROWTH
      • II. KEEP PROFITS FROM BEING INVESTED
      • II.1. ONE CAN'T BRING IN THE HARVEST ALONE
      • II.2. CURBS ON GAIN THAT VILLAGERS IMPOSE
      • II.3. THE GRANDIOSE DESTRUCTION OF WEALTH
      • II.4. ELDERS, CHIEFS AND KINGS
      • II.5. WAYS WHOSE LOGIC ESCAPES US
      • II.6. WERE — ARE — REAL AIMS RECOGNIZED?
      • II.7. AWARENESS OF THE ECONOMIC BASE WOULD AVOID T...
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