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Civilizando la selva: capital, espacio y negocio forestal en la antigua Guinea continental española, c. 1926-1936

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  • Henar Pascual Ruiz-Valdepeñas

    (Universidad de Valladolid)

  • Juan Carlos Guerra Velasco

    (Universidad de Valladolid)

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This study examines the elements and processes that defined the development of the wood commercialization industry in Continental Guinea between 1926 and 1936. During this per iod an influx of Spanish capital resulted in the establishment of a limited number of companies that controlled the logging business in this Spanish colony. The implementation of a forest concession system reorganized the colony according to a logic of production involving the progressive accumulation of technical capital and the concentration of the native workforce. The intensification and mechanization of production as well as the expansion of the exploited forest surface consolidated the export profile of Continental Guinea, making wood the most impor tant export product of the colony. Thus, the incor poration of the Spanish okoume to Norther n European commercial circuits broke the monopoly that exports from the French colony of Gabon had until then.

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  • Henar Pascual Ruiz-Valdepeñas & Juan Carlos Guerra Velasco, 2017. "Civilizando la selva: capital, espacio y negocio forestal en la antigua Guinea continental española, c. 1926-1936," Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, Sociedad Española de Historia Agraria, issue 72, pages 135-166, august.
    • Handle: RePEc:seh:journl:y:2017:i:72:m:august:p:135-166
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    Keywords

    Equatorial Guinea; forest companies; wood production; colony;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • F54 - International Economics - - International Relations, National Security, and International Political Economy - - - Colonialism; Imperialism; Postcolonialism
    • Q23 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Renewable Resources and Conservation - - - Forestry
    • N57 - Economic History - - Agriculture, Natural Resources, Environment and Extractive Industries - - - Africa; Oceania
    • F1 - International Economics - - Trade

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