Poverty and wealth in East Africa a conceptual history

"In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years. This history serves as a powerful reminder that colonialism and...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stephens, Rhiannon, 1977- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press 2022.
Edition:1st ed
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009799187606719
Table of Contents:
  • Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Durée
  • Excavating Early Ideas about Poverty and Wealth
  • Overview of Climate Developments
  • The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century
  • Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century
  • Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century
  • Wealth, Poverty and the Colonial Economy: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries.