The African poor a history
This first history of the poor in Sub-Saharan Africa begins in the monasteries of thirteenth-century Ethiopia and ends in the South African resettlement sites of the 1980s. Its thesis, derived from histories of poverty in Europe, is that most very poor Africans have been individuals incapacitated fo...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York :
Cambridge University Press
1987.
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| Colección: | CUP ebooks.
African studies series ; 58. |
| Acceso en línea: | Conectar con la versión electrónica |
| Ver en Universidad de Navarra: | https://innopac.unav.es/record=b39711821*spi |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The comparative history of the poor
- Christian Ethiopia
- The Islamic tradition
- Poverty and power
- Poverty and pastoralism
- Yoruba and Igbo
- Early European initiatives
- Poverty in South Africa, 1886-1948
- Rural poverty in colonial Africa
- Urban poverty in tropical Africa
- The care of the poor in colonial Africa
- Leprosy
- The growth of poverty in independent Africa
- The transformation of poverty in southern Africa.
