Trouble Showed the Way : Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 - 1990 /

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Award-winner Claire Robertson employs a variety of approaches to analyze and weave together this wide-ranging study. Her book provides an extensive case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence, and civil society. Based on archival documents, library sources (fiction and...

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Main Author: Robertson, Claire C., 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, 1997.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Wirtschaft.
Geschichte.
Femmes karuba > Conditions economiques.
Femmes kamba > Conditions sociales.
Femmes kamba > Commerce.
Femmes kamba > Conditions economiques.
Rôle selon le sexe > Kenya > Nairobi.
Femmes kikuyu > Conditions sociales.
Femmes kikuyu > Commerce.
Femmes kikuyu > Conditions economiques.
Kooplieden.
Kikuyu (volk)
Vrouwen.
Wirtschaft
Geschichte
Women, Kikuyu > Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Sex role.
Economic history.
Commerce.
Beans > Economic aspects.
Economics.
HISTORY > Africa > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Structural Adjustment.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Business Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Development > Economic Development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Government & Business.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Economic Policy.
economics.
Économie politique.
Haricots > Aspect economique > Kenya > Nairobi.
Economics
Sex role > Kenya > Nairobi.
Beans > Economic aspects > Kenya > Nairobi.
Women, Kamba > Social conditions.
Women, Kamba > Economic conditions.
Women, Kamba > Commerce.
Women, Kikuyu > Economic conditions.
Women, Kikuyu > Commerce.
Nairobi (Region)
Nairobi (Kenya) > Conditions sociales.
Nairobi (Kenya) > Conditions economiques.
Nairobi (Kenya) > Commerce.
Nairobi > Region
Kenya > Nairobi.
Kenya
Nairobi (Kenya) > Social conditions.
Nairobi (Kenya) > Economic conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From Njahe to Nyayo: beans and the evolution of agricultural imperialism in Kenya
  • The development of trade in the Nairobi area, 1890 to 1940
  • "Various nefarious happenings": trade, wars and traders' war, 1940 to 1963
  • "Here we come only to struggle": changes in trade, 1964 to 1990
  • "Seeking the freedom to raise my children": changes in marriage
  • Organizing: women and collective action, 1920 to 1990
  • Trouble showed the way; conclusion: empowerment?

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