Roads through Mwinilunga :: a history of social change in northwest Zambia /

"Roads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. By looking at agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, existing explanations of social change are reassessed. Using a wide range of archiva...

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1. Verfasser: Peša, Iva (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2019]
Schriftenreihe:Afrika-Studiecentrum series ; v. 38.
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Zusammenfassung:"Roads through Mwinilunga provides a historical appraisal of social change in Northwest Zambia from 1750 until the present. By looking at agricultural production, mobility, consumption, and settlement patterns, existing explanations of social change are reassessed. Using a wide range of archival and oral history sources, Iva Peša shows the relevance of Mwinilunga to broader processes of colonialism, capitalism, and globalisation. Through a focus on daily life, this book complicates transitions from subsistence to market production and dichotomies between tradition and modernity. Roads through Mwinilunga is a crucial addition to debates on historical and social change in Central Africa"--
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xii, 429 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps.
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9789004408968
9004408967

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