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

Henar Pascual Ruiz-Valdepeñas and Juan Carlos Guerra Velasco
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Henar Pascual Ruiz-Valdepeñas: Universidad de Valladolid
Juan Carlos Guerra Velasco: Universidad de Valladolid

Historia Agraria. Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural, 2017, issue 72, 135-166

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Equatorial Guinea; forest companies; wood production; colony (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F54 N57 Q23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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