From Slavery to Aid : Politics, Labour, and Ecology in the Nigerien Sahel, 1800–2000 (Paperback)

1. At the desert's edge; 2. Between Sokoto and Agadez: inter-ethnic hierarchy in the nineteenth century; 3. Entangled histories of colonial occupation, 1899?1917; 4. Governing labour ? slave, forced and migrant, 1918?45; 5. The development of 'development', 1946?83; 6. Fighting against the desert, 1984?2000; 7. Between development and dependence.