Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- 1. A Currency at the Service of the 'Colonial Pact' -- 2. The CFA System -- 3. Resistance and Reprisal -- 4. France in Command -- 5. At the Service of the Francafrique -- 6. An Obstacle to Development -- 7. An Unsustainable Status Quo -- Epilogue...

1 TRADE TALKS Peace, Protection, and the Rise of Free Trade -- THE FRANCO-BRITISH COMMERCIAL TREATY OF 1713 -- FREE TRADE AFTER UTRECHT -- THE COMMERCIAL TREATY PROPOSAL OF 1772 -- THE EDEN-RAYNEVAL TREATY OF 1786 -- 2 A SYSTEM OF COLLECTIVE RESTRAINT Spanish America, Freedom of Trade, and the...