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Palm Wine, Railways and Gold (Technology and Empire in a West African Rainforest)
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Product Details
Author:
David Drengk
Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
Brill (November 19, 2026)
Imprint:
Brill
Release Date:
November 19, 2026
Language:
English
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13:
9789004765504
ISBN-10:
9004765506
Weight:
12oz
Dimensions:
6.1" x 9.25"
File:
TWO RIVERS-PERSEUS-Metadata_Only_Perseus_Distribution_Customer_Group_Metadata_20260525163339-20260525.xml
Folder:
TWO RIVERS
List Price:
$62.00
Country of Origin:
Netherlands
Pub Discount:
35
Series:
Afrika-Studiecentrum Series
As low as:
$58.90
Publisher Identifier:
P-PER
Discount Code:
H
Overview
Palm Wine, Railways, and Gold reinterprets the early 20th-century rainforest in southern Côte d’Ivoire as a technological landscape. It examines the relationships among people, technology, nature, and empire, set against environmental constraints and imperial ambition. Challenging plantation-centred narratives, it reconstructs forest economies before oil palm and banana monocultures, highlighting the economic and cultural centrality of palm wine and kola nuts.
It re-conceptualises the Abidjan–Niger Railway as fragile infrastructure requiring constant maintenance and repair, and links river-based gold mining to regional trade networks. Through everyday encounters, David Drengk foregrounds forest dwellers and their persisting contestation and negotiation of French colonial rule in West Africa.
