Silent Violence : Food, Famine, and Peasantry in Northern Nigeria /

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Watts, Michael, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens : University of Georgia Press, 2013.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Peasants.
Food supply.
Famines.
Paysannerie > Nigeria (Nord)
Famines > Nigeria (Nord)
Peasants > Nigeria, Northern.
Food supply > Nigeria, Northern.
Famines > Nigeria, Northern.
Northern Nigeria.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface to the New Edition
  • Errata
  • Preface to the 1983 Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations and Conventions
  • Glossary
  • Bare Life and the Long Interregnum: Introduction to the New Edition
  • 1. Introduction: The Political Economy of Food and Famine
  • Dimensions of the Current Food Crisis
  • Food Systems, Risk, and Famine
  • Peasants and the Development of Capitalism
  • The Study Area
  • Fact, Fiction, and Method
  • 2. Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate in the Nineteenth Century
  • Hausaland, the Central Sudan, and the Sarauta System
  • Islamization and the Caliphal State
  • Caliphal Administration and Jihadi Ideology
  • The Emirates: Political and Social Structure
  • The Economic Structure of Society
  • The Labor Process and Material Life
  • The Social Relations of Production
  • Modes of Production and the Material Basis of the Caliphate
  • Summary
  • 3. Food, Famine, and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
  • Nature and Society
  • The Environmental Context of Hausaland
  • Drought and Famine in the Central Sudan
  • A Hausa Famine Chronology, 1800-1900
  • Moral Versus Political Economy?
  • Famine Genesis and Dynamics
  • 4. Capital, State, and Peasantry in Colonial Northern Nigeria
  • Foundations of Colonial Capitalism
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Hunger, Risk, and Household Security
  • Hausa Agronomy and Household Production
  • Fulani Pastoral Economy, Terms of Trade, and Agricultural Productivity
  • The Sociology of the Household and the "Culture" of Reproduction
  • Grains Trade, Domestic Storage, and the Minesfield
  • Class Relations and Rural Differentiation
  • Merchant's Capital and Simple Reproduction
  • State Crises and State Demands
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Famine Over Hausaland, 1900-1960
  • 1900-1918: Conquest, Incorporation, and Transition
  • 1919-1939: Consolidation and the Depression Economy
  • 1939-1960: The Wartime Economy and its Aftermath
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Climate, Famine, and Scarcity in the 1970s
  • Agriculture, War, and Famine, 1960-1975
  • The Livestock Sector
  • The Relief Effort
  • Case Study: Kaita Village, Katsina
  • Seasonality and Social Reproduction in Hausaland
  • Famine, Social Differentiation, and Class Relations
  • Conclusion
  • 8. Food, Agriculture, and the Oil Boom, 1970-1980
  • Economy, Society, and the Oil Boom
  • Oil, State, and the Regime of Capital Accumulation
  • Food, Agriculture, and the Popular Classes
  • The Agrarian Question and Rural Development
  • Agrarian Transformation and the Crises of the State
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.

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