African Miracle, African Mirage
NEW AFRICAN HISTORIES
SERIES EDITORS: JEAN ALLMAN, ALLEN ISAACMAN, AND DEREK R. PETERSON
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African Miracle, African Mirage
Transnational Politics and the Paradox of Modernization in Ivory Coast
Abou B. Bamba
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Parts of chapters 2, 3, and 4 were published previously, though largely in different forms. I extend my thanks to the publishers and editors of the earlier pieces for permission to reuse them: Taylor & Francis Ltd. is acknowledged for permission to reuse sections of “Mémoires épistémiques et pouvoir d’experts dans une postcolonie africaine: Le cas de l’usage des savoirs africanistes par l’ORSTOM en Côte d’Ivoire,” Revue canadienne d’études africaines/Canadian Journal of African Studies 44, no. 1 (Summer 2010). C. H. Beck is appreciated for permission to reuse “Triangulating a Modernization Experiment: The United States, France, and the Making of the Kossou Dam in Central Ivory Coast,” Journal of Modern European History 8, no. 1 (April 2010). Finally, I thank Lorella Tosone for the permission to reuse “Complicare una ‘Risposta Molto Semplice’: L’Assistenza allo sviluppo degli Stati Uniti e il ‘Miracolo Economico’ della Costa d’Avorio, 1960–1975,” published in Gli auiti allo sviluppo nelle relazioni internazionali del secondo dopoguerre: Esperienze a confronto, ed. Luciano Tosi and Lorella Tosone (Padova: Cedam, 2006).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Bamba, Abou B., 1972– author.
Title: African miracle, African mirage : transnational politics and the paradox of modernization in Ivory Coast / Abou B. Bamba.
Other titles: New African histories series.
Description: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2016. | Series: New African histories | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016025560| ISBN 9780821422380 (hc : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821422397 (pb : alk. paper) | ISBN 9780821445822 (pdf)
Subjects: LCSH: Economic development—Côte d’Ivoire. | Côte d’Ivoire—Foreign economic relations—United States. | Côte d’Ivoire—Foreign economic relations—France. | United States—Foreign economic relations—Côte d’Ivoire. | France—Foreign economic relations—Côte d’Ivoire. | Côte d’Ivoire—Economic conditions—20th century. | Côte d’Ivoire—History—20th century.
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