From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia : : A Rural History, 1900-1935 / / James McCann.
In From Poverty to Famine in Northeast Ethiopia, James McCann engages an interdisciplinary perspective to uncover the historical background to the persistence of famine in the northeast region of Ethiopia. His study focuses on the northern Wallo region, an area that was incorporated into Haile Selas...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Pennsylvania Press Package Archive 1898-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016] ©1987 |
| Year of Publication: | 2016 |
| Edition: | Reprint 2016 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Ethnohistory Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (265 p.) :; 9 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps, Illustrations, and Table
- List of Abbreviations
- Transliteration
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part One. Land, Society, and Production
- 1. The Context of Local History: Demography and Ecology in Northern Wallo
- 2. Ershe Balahu: Rural Society and Production in Northern Wallo
- 3. The Farm Economy of Northern Wallo: Oxen, Trade, and the Production Equation
- 4. Historical Tradition and Moral Order
- Part Two. Northern Wallo and the Imperial System
- 5. The Localization of Empire: Northern Wallo in the Empire State, 1900-1920
- 6. The State and Rural Society in Northern Wallo: Households and the Imperial Order
- 7. The Dynamics of Rural Rebellion: Northern Resistance to the New Imperial Polity, 1928-1935
- 8. Peasants and Paupers: The impoverishment of the Household Economy in Northern Wallo
- Epilogue: The Future of Northern Wallo's Economy: Evidence from post-1935
- Bibliography
- Index