Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land & Agricultural Development in Arusha & Meru
by:
Thomas Spear (author)
This work examines the struggle between the Meru and Arusha peoples and their German and British rulers over the issue of land and agricultural development on Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It shows how the Meru and Arashi, faced with an iron ring of land alienated by European settlers...
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This work examines the struggle between the Meru and Arusha peoples and their German and British rulers over the issue of land and agricultural development on Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It shows how the Meru and Arashi, faced with an iron ring of land alienated by European settlers successfully intensified their own irrigated agriculture to bring about what has been termed an indigenous agricultural revolution. Tanzania: Mkuki na Nyota
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780852557372 (085255737X)
Publish date: January 1st 1997
Publisher: James Currey (GB)
Edition language: English
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