Stephens Poverty and Wealth in East Africa

A Conceptual History
1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2451-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stephens, Rhiannon

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Durée 22
2. Excavating Early Ideas about Poverty and Wealth 45
Interchapter. Overview of Climate Developments 64
3. The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 72
4. Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 99
5. Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 120
6. Wealth, Poverty, and the Colonial Economy: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 144
Conclusion 167
Appendix. Reconstructed Vocabulary 171
Notes 207
Bibliography 254
Index 277

Über Autor(innen)

Rhiannon Stephens is Associate Professor of History at Columbia University, author of A History of African Motherhood: The Case of Uganda, 700–1900, and coeditor of Doing Conceptual History in Africa.