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The politics of environmental control in northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940 /
A historical study of the relationship between political and environmental change in Tanzania's northeastern lowlands, an impoverished region that has been afflicted by severe food shortages throughout the twentieth century.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
©1992.
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| Colección: | Ethnohistory series (Philadelphia, Pa.)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I. Environment and Economy in Late-Precolonial Uzigua
- 1. Agronomy and Trade
- 2. Cattle, Control of Bovine Disease, and Patronage
- Part II. The Politics of Patronage in the Late-Precolonial Chieftaincies
- 3. Merchant Capital and the Chieftains
- 4. Emulating the Chieftains: Patronage in the Spiritan Missions of Uzigua
- 5. Ambition and Obligation in Late-Precolonial Politics
- Part III. Famine, Disease, and the Decline of Patrons Under German Colonial Rule
- 6. The Colonial Economy and Its Impact on Patrons and Dependents
- 7. Colonialism, Infanticide, and the Destruction of Precolonial Political Authority
- 8. Colonialism, Famine, and Epizootic, 1884-1914
- Part IV. British Administration, Obstacles to Peasant Production, and Ecological Crisis
- 9. Indirect Rule and Peasant Production in Uzigua
- 10. Famine, Depopulation and Epizootic, 1916--1940
- Conclusion: Historical Interpretation and Ujamaa in Handeni District
- Sources
- Index