Land, literacy and the state in the history of Sudanic Africa / edited by Donald Crummey.
Contributors: Crummey, Donald.
Publisher: The Red Sea Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Trenton, NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Land use -- Sudan.; Sudan -- History.
Table of contents: title: The conceptualization of land tenure in the precolonial Sudan : evidence and interpretation / Lidwien Kapteijns and Jay Spaulding; title: New perspectives on the Diwan : state formation and the rise of Kanuri domination in the central Sudan (A.D. 1200-1600) / Augustin Holl; title: By these means he is able to procure what he is most in need of : predatory  accumulation and state formation in Bagirmi (1846-1877) / Stephen Reyna; title: Building a state and struggling over land : the Taqali Kingdom, 1750-1884 / Janet Ewald; title: Mud on the belly of the bull : land, power and state formation in  eighteenth and nineteenth century Dar Fur / George Michael La Rue; title: Land, agriculture, and social class formation in the Gibe Region from the mid-nineteenth century to 1936 / Gulumu Gemeda; title: Military elites in medieval Ethiopia / Merid Wolde Aregay; title: The politics of the northern border : state control and the land tenure system in nineteenth century Ethiopia / Irma Taddia; title: Landsale contracts as historical sources : methodology and analysis / Anders Bjorkelo; title: The establishment of Gemjabit Kidand Mehret Church in Ddbrd Marqos, Gojjam Province / Donald Crummey and Daniel Ayana; title: Waqf-land in nineteenth century Wdllo (Ethiopia) / Hussein Ahmad; title: Land rights, commerce, and royal authority in Kano / Allan Christelow.