”The sparrow loves millet, but labors not”: Energy use and infrastructure in the Senegal Valley, 1450-1760

Bibliography

• Abdoulaye, T., J. Sanders, and O. Botorou. “Evaluation of Sorghum and Millet Technology and Marketing Strategy Introduction: 2006-07 Crop Year.” INTSORMIL Bulletin, no. 8 (2007): 1–23.
   Google Scholar
• Achebe, N. Farmers, Traders, Warriors, and Kings: Female Power and Authority in Northern Igboland 1900-1960. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 2005.
   Google Scholar
• Adanson, M. Histoire Natural du Sénégal: coquillages avec la relation abrégée d’un voyage fait en ce pays pendant les années 1749-1753. Paris: Claude-Jean-Baptiste Bauche, 1757. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.11585.
   Google Scholar
• Adanson, M. A Voyage to Senegal, the Isle of Gorée, and the River Gambia. London: J. Nourse, 1759.
   Google Scholar
• Baptista, I. “Space and Energy Transitions in Sub-Saharan Africa: Understated Historical Connections.” Energy Research & Social Science 36, no. 36 (2018): 30–35. doi:10.1016/j.erss.2017.09.029.
   Google Scholar
• Barry, B. Senegambia and the Atlantic Slave Trade. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511584084.
   Google Scholar
• Becker, C., ed. Memoire sur le Commerce de la Concession du Senegal. Kaolack: Mimeograph, 1983.
   Google Scholar
• Becker, C. “Notes sur les Conditions Écologique en Sénégambie aux 17e et 18e Siècles.” African Economic History, no. 14 (1985): 167–216. doi:10.2307/3601117.
   Google Scholar
• Becker, C., and V. Martin, eds. “Recueil sur la Vie de Damel, par Tanor Latsoukabe Latsukaabe Faal.” Bulletin de l’Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire 36, no. 1 (1974): 93–146.
   Google Scholar
• Becker, C., and V. Martin. “Détails historique et politiques, mémoire inédit de J.A. Le Brasseur, 1778.” Bulletin de l’Institut Fondamental d’Afrique Noire 39, no. 1 (1977): 81–132.
   Google Scholar
• Berlioux, E.-F. Andre Brüe, ou l’origine de la colonie française du Sénégal. Paris: Libraire de Guillaimin, 1874.
   Google Scholar
• Bridge, G., S. Bouzarovski, M. Bradshaw, and N. Eyre. “Geographies of Energy Transition: Space, Place and the Low-Carbon Economy.” Energy Policy 53, no. 53 (2013): 331–340. doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2012.10.066.
   Google Scholar
• Brooks, G. “A Provisional Historical Schema for Western Africa Based on Seven Climate Periods (ca. 9000 B.C. to the 19th Century).” Cahiers d’Études Africaines 26, no. 101/102 (1986): 43–62. doi:10.3406/cea.1986.2164.
   Google Scholar
• Brüe, A. “Premier Voyage de Brüe, 1697.” In Histoire Général des Voyages, edited by C. A. Walckenaer, 375–493. 2 vols. Paris: L. Lefèvre, 1826.
   Google Scholar
• Burgarella, C., P. Cubry, N. A. Kane, R. K. Varshney, C. Mariac, X. Liu, C. Shi, et al. “A Western Sahara Centre of Domestication Inferred from Pearl Millet Genomes.” Nature Ecology & Evolution 2, no. 2 (2018): 1377–1380. doi:10.1038/s41559-018-0643-y.
   PubMedGoogle Scholar
• Cadamosto, A. D. “The Voyages of Alvise Cadamosto and Pero de Sintra.” In The Voyages of Cadamosto and Other Documents on Western Africa, edited by G. R. Crone, 1–84. London: Hakluyt, 1937.
   Google Scholar
• Carney, J., and R. Rosomoff. In the Shadow of Slavery: Africa’s Botanical Legacy in the Atlantic World. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. doi:10.1525/9780520944855.
   Google Scholar
• Carse, A. “Keyword: Infrastructure: How a Humble French Engineering Term Shaped the Modern World.” In Infrastructures and Social Complexity, edited by P. Harvey, C. B. Jensen, and A. Morita, 27–39. New York: Routledge, 2016.
   Google Scholar
• Chambonneau, L. M. D. “Deux textes sur le Sénégal (1673-1677).” Bulletin de géographie historique et descriptive, edited by by I. A. Carson and B. Ritchie, 289-353. 30 vols. 1968.
   Google Scholar
• Colvin, L. “Kajor and Its Diplomatic Relations with Saint-Louis du Senegal, 1763–1861.” PhD Diss., Columbia University, 1972.
   Google Scholar
• Coquery-Vidrovitch, C. “Women, Marriage, and Slavery in Sub-Saharan Africa in the Nineteenth Century.” In Women and Slavery. Vol. 1 of Africa, the Indian Ocean, and the Medieval North Atlantic, edited by G. Campbell, S. Miers, and J. C. Miller, 43–61. Ohio University PressAthens, 2007.
   Google Scholar
• Cropper, J. “Running on Empty: Fossil Fuels, Local Fuels, and Entangled Infrastructures in Colonial Senegal, 1885-1945.” Journal of African History 63, no. 1 (2022): 19–36. doi:10.1017/S0021853722000214.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Cropper, J. “‘Growing a World Wonder’: The Great Green Wall and the History of Environmental Decline in the Sahel, 145-2022.” Environment and History (2023). doi:10.3197/096734023X16702350656933.
   Google Scholar
• Crosby, A. Children of the Sun: A History of Humanity’s Unappeasable Appetite for Energy. New York: W. W. Norton, 2006.
   Google Scholar
• Curtin, P. D. Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Senegambia in the Era of the Slave Trade. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975.
   Google Scholar
• Curtin, P. D. Economic Change in Precolonial Africa: Supplementary Evidence. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1975.
   Google Scholar
• de Barros, J. “Extracts from the ‘Decadas da India’ of Joao de Barros.” In The Voyages of Cadamosto and Other Documents on Western Africa, edited by G. R. Crone, 103–148. London: Hakluyt, 1937.
   Google Scholar
• de La Courbe, M. J. Premier voyage du sieur de La Courbe fait à la coste d’Afrique en 1685. Paris: E. Champion, 1913.
   Google Scholar
• de Luna, K. Collecting Food, Cultivating People: Subsistence and Society in Central Africa. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016. doi:10.12987/yale/9780300218534.001.0001.
   Google Scholar
• de Luna, K. “Inciteful Language: Knowing and Naming Technology in South Central Africa.” History and Technology 34, no. 1 (2018): 41–50. doi:10.1080/07341512.2018.1516852.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dial, A. Dictionary Wolof-English/English-Wolof. Translated by E. Nesper. Revised and updated. Nord-Saint-Louis, Senegal: Impr. Serigne Fallou Mbacké, 2013.
   Google Scholar
• Diouf, M. Le Kajoor au XIX^e siècle: Pouvoir ceddo et conquête coloniale. Paris: Karthala, 1990.
   Google Scholar
• Dlamini, J. Safari Nation: A Social History of the Kruger National Park. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press, 2020. doi:10.2307/j.ctv21zp25d.
   Google Scholar
• Edwards, P. N. A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), World Health Organization (WHO), and United Nations University (UNU). Energy and Protein Requirements. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1985.
   Google Scholar
• Gokee, C. “Crafting, Cooking, and Constructing Histories: Women and the Politics of Everyday Life Along the Falémé River.” African Archaeology Review 31, no. 2 (2014): 233–263. doi:10.1007/s10437-014-9158-3.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Gokee, C., and A. L. Logan. “Comparing Craft and Culinary Practice in Africa: Themes and Perspectives.” African Archaeological Review 31, no. 2 (2014): 87–104. doi:10.1007/s10437-014-9162-7.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Goody, J. Technology, Tradition, and the State in Africa. London: Tavistock, 1962.
   Google Scholar
• Green, T. A Fistful of Shells: West Africa from the Rise of the Slave Trade to the Age of Revolution. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226644745.001.0001.
   Google Scholar
• Gueye, N. S. “Poteries et peuplements de la Moyenne vallée du fleuve Sénégal du XVIeme au XXe siècle: approaches ethnoarchéologique, archéologique et ethnohistorique.” PhD diss., Université de Paris X – Nanterre, 1998.
   Google Scholar
• Hafner, M., S. Tagliapietra, and L. Strasser. Energy in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities. Cham: Springer, 2018. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-92219-5.
   Google Scholar
• Herbst, J. States and Power in Africa, Comparative Lessons in Authority and Control. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.
   Google Scholar
• Hopkins, A. G. An Economic History of West Africa. 2nd ed. New York: Routledge, 2020. doi:10.4324/9780429400582.
   Google Scholar
• Jonsson, F. A. “The Industrial Revolution in the Anthropocene.” The Journal of Modern History 84, no. 3 (2012): 679–696. doi:10.1086/666049.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Klein, M. Slavery and Colonial Rule in French West Africa. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511584138.
   Google Scholar
• Kopytoff, I., and S. Miers, eds. Slavery in Africa: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1977.
   Google Scholar
• Kreike, E. Environmental Infrastructure in African History: Examining the Myth of Natural Resource Management in Namibia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013. doi:10.1017/CBO9781139026123.
   Google Scholar
• Lafleur, G., ed. Journal d’André Brüe, commissaire générale des affaires de la colonie du Sénégal (8 novembre 1722–8 juillet 1723). Saint-Claude: G. Lafleur, 2010.
   Google Scholar
• Larkin, B. “The Politics and Poetics of Infrastructure.” Annual Review of Anthropology 42 (2013): 327–343. doi:10.1146/annurev-anthro-092412-155522.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Law, R. “Horses, Firearms, and Political Power in Precolonial West Africa.” Past & Present 72, no. 1 (1976): 112–132. doi:10.1093/past/72.1.112.
   Google Scholar
• Lovejoy, P. Transformation in Slavery: A History of Slavery in Africa. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
   Google Scholar
• Malm, A. The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming. New York: Verso, 2017.
   Google Scholar
• Mavhunga, C. C. What Do Science, Technology, and Innovation Mean from Africa?. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. doi:10.7551/mitpress/10769.001.0001.
   Google Scholar
• Mbodj, M. “The Abolition of Slavery in Senegal, 1820-1890: Crisis or the Rise of a New Entrepreneurial Class?” In Breaking the Chains: Slavery, Bondage, and Emancipation in Modern Africa and Asia, edited by M. Klein, 197–214. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1993.
   Google Scholar
• McIntosh, S. K. “A Tale of Two Floodplains: Comparative Perspectives on the Emergence of Complex Societies and Urbanism in the Middle Niger and Senegal Valleys.” In East African Origins in World Perspective: Proceedings of the Second WAC Intercongress, edited by P. J. J. Sinclair. 1999. Accessed September 9, 2021. https://www.arkeologi.uu.se/digitalAssets/483/c_483244-l_3-k_mcintoshall.pdf
   Google Scholar
• Monroe, J. C., and A. Ogundiran, eds. Power and Landscape in Atlantic West Africa. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2012. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511921032.
   Google Scholar
• Muldrew, C. Food, Energy and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550-1780. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511933905.
   Google Scholar
• NRC (National Research Council). Lost Crops of Africa. Vol. 1 of Grains. Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences, 1996.
   Google Scholar
• Osborn, E. L. Our New Husbands are Here: Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule. Athens: Ohio University Press, 2011.
   Google Scholar
• Osborn, E. L. “Containers, Energy and the Anthropocene in West Africa.” In Economic Development and Environmental History in the Anthropocene: Perspectives on Asia and Africa, edited by G. Austin, 69–94. London: Bloomsbury Press, 2017.
   Google Scholar
• Pélissier, P. Les Paysans du Sénégal: Les civilisations agraires du Cayor á la Casamance. Haute-Vienne: Imprimerie Fabrégeu, 1966.
   Google Scholar
• Robinson, D. “The Islamic Revolution of Futa Toro.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 8, no. 2 (1975): 185–221. doi:10.2307/216648.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Rousseau, R. “Le Sénégal d’autrefois: Etude sur le Oualo: Cahiers de Yoro Dyâo.” Bulletin du comité d’études historiques et scientifique de l’Afrique Occidentale Française 12 (1929): 133–211.
   Google Scholar
• Rousseau, R. “Le Sénégal d’autrefois: Seconde étude sur le Cayor.” Bulletin de l’Institut Français d’Afrique Noir 3 (1941): 79–144.
   Google Scholar
• Sarr, A. Islam, Power, and Dependency in the Gambia River Basin: The Politics of Land Control, 1790–1940. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2016.
   Google Scholar
• Schoenbrun, D. L. A Green Place, a Good Place: Agrarian Change, Gender, and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann, 1998.
   Google Scholar
• Searing, J. West African Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: The Senegal River Valley, 1700–1860. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511572784.
   Google Scholar
• Searing, J. F. “Aristocrats, Slaves, and Peasants: Power and Dependency in the Wolof States, 1700-1850.” The International Journal of African Historical Studies 21, no. 3 (1988): 475–503. doi:10.2307/219452.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Seow, V. Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2021. doi:10.7208/chicago/9780226812601.001.0001.
   Google Scholar
• Shawyer, R. Wisdom of the Wolof Sages: A Collection of Proverbs from Senegal. 2009.
   Google Scholar
• Showers, K. B. “Electrifying Africa: An Environmental History with Policy Implications.” Human Geography 93, no. 3 (2011): 193–221. doi:10.1111/j.1468-0467.2011.00373.x.
   Google Scholar
• Shutzer, M. “Energy in South Asian History.” History Compass 18, no. 12 (2020). doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12635.
   PubMed Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sieferle, R. The Subterranean Forest: Energy Systems and the Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: White Horse Press, 2001.
   Google Scholar
• Simone, A. “People as Infrastructure: Intersecting Fragments in Johannesburg.” Public Culture 16, no. 3 (2004): 407–429. doi:10.1215/08992363-16-3-407.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Smil, V. Energy: A Beginner’s Guide. Oxford: OneWorld, 2006.
   Google Scholar
• Smil, V. Energy and Civilization: A History. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2017. doi:10.7551/mitpress/9780262035774.001.0001.
   Google Scholar
• Summer Cooperative African Language Institute. “Wolof Resources: Agricultural Vocabulary.” Accessed November 1, 2022. http://wolofresources.org/language/vocab.htm
   Google Scholar
• Thornton, J. Africa and Africans in the Making of the Atlantic World, 1400–1800. 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511800276.
   Google Scholar
• Turnbull, T. “Energy, History, and the Humanities: Against a New Determinism.” History and Technology 37, no. 2 (2021): 247–292. doi:10.1080/07341512.2021.1891394.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vansina, J. Paths in the Rainforest: Toward a History of Political Tradition in Equatorial Africa. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1990.
   Google Scholar
• Wrigley, E. A. Energy and the English Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511779619.
   Google Scholar
• Wrigley, E. A. The Path to Sustained Growth: England’s Transition from an Organic Energy Economy to an Industrial Revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016. doi:10.1017/CBO9781316488256.
   Google Scholar