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The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940 / James L. Giblin.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: The Ethnohistory SeriesPublisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [1992]Copyright date: ©1993Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 10 illusContent type:
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  • 9780812231779
  • 9781512816242
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 30. Aug 2022)