Poverty and Wealth in East Africa: A Conceptual History

Author:   Rhiannon Stephens
Publisher:   Duke University Press
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Pages:   277
Publication Date:   09 December 2022
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Author:   Rhiannon Stephens
Publisher:   Duke University Press
Imprint:   Duke University Press
Weight:   0.431kg
ISBN:  

9781478018827


ISBN 10:   1478018828
Pages:   277
Publication Date:   09 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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Table of Contents

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

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""Poverty and Wealth in East Africa is a significant book: lucid and meticulous, yet ambitious and imaginative. From the viewpoint of African studies, this work stretches significantly the time span of studies on African poverty. . . . Historians of economic thought without a scholarly interest in sub-Saharan Africa would also significantly benefit from reading this book. . . . Poverty and Wealth in East Africa should not be received just as a solid work of Africanist conceptual and linguistic history but also as a catalyst of important questions about our discipline, its 'canon,' and its methodological conventions."" - Gerardo Serra (Journal of the History of Economic Thought) “Poverty and Wealth in East Africa is an extensive and meticulously researched work that sheds light on the multifaceted nature of poverty and wealth in eastern Uganda . . . this book offers a nuanced and holistic view of economic inequality in the region, providing a valuable resource for scholars and researchers interested in African history, anthropology, and development studies.” - Addis Gedefaw (Research Africa Reviews)


"""Poverty and Wealth in East Africa is a significant book: lucid and meticulous, yet ambitious and imaginative. From the viewpoint of African studies, this work stretches significantly the time span of studies on African poverty. . . . Historians of economic thought without a scholarly interest in sub-Saharan Africa would also significantly benefit from reading this book. . . . Poverty and Wealth in East Africa should not be received just as a solid work of Africanist conceptual and linguistic history but also as a catalyst of important questions about our discipline, its 'canon,' and its methodological conventions."" -- Gerardo Serra * Journal of the History of Economic Thought *"


""Poverty and Wealth in East Africa is a significant book: lucid and meticulous, yet ambitious and imaginative. From the viewpoint of African studies, this work stretches significantly the time span of studies on African poverty. . . . Historians of economic thought without a scholarly interest in sub-Saharan Africa would also significantly benefit from reading this book. . . . Poverty and Wealth in East Africa should not be received just as a solid work of Africanist conceptual and linguistic history but also as a catalyst of important questions about our discipline, its 'canon,' and its methodological conventions."" -- Gerardo Serra * Journal of the History of Economic Thought *


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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.

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