The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

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Forum: Boom and Bust

Cotton Booms, Cotton Busts, and the Civil War in West Africa

Andrew Zimmermana1 c1

a1 George Washington University

(Online publication September 28 2011)

Correspondence:

c1 azimmer@gwu.edu

Andrew Zimmerman is an associate professor of history at the George Washington University. He is the author of Anthropology and Antihumanism in Imperial Germany (2001) and Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (2010), on which his essay in this issue is based.