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The politics of environmental control in northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940

Title: The politics of environmental control in northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940 / James L. Giblin.
Author: Giblin, James Leonard.
Publication: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1992.

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Description

xiv, 209 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania is 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."--BOOK JACKET. "Politics and trade, the author contends, determined whether the farmers of northeastern Tanzania would control environmental forces. Arguing that neither factor is accorded sufficient emphasis in African peasant history, James L. Giblin shows that politics and trade have fundamentally affected the region's history, and that the recognition of their past importance shapes the way modern farmers judge the policies of the Tanzanian state."--BOOK JACKET. "Covering a period during which successive external forces - first precolonial merchant capital from Zanzibar, then German and British colonialism - dominated northeastern Tanzania, the author argues that the ability of farming communities to control cattle infections depended on how external forces affected patronage and redistribution of wealth. The most important relations of production were between patron and client rather than within households, so the politics of patronage determined whether precolonial farmers succeeded in controlling disease, accumulating livestock and food reserves, and preventing drought from causing famine."--BOOK JACKET. "The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania will be of interest to students and scholars of anthropology, history, and African studies."--Jacket.

Series Statement

University of Pennsylvania Press ethnohistory series

Uniform Title

Ethnohistory series (Philadelphia, Pa.)

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p.[185]-203) and index.

Contents

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.

ISBN

0812231775
9780812231779

LCCN

92028388

OCLC

ocm26310722
26310722
SCSB-1973021

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library