Modes of production in Africa
Subtitle: the precolonial era
By: Donald Crummey and C.C. Stewart, editors.
Contributors: Crummey, Donald.; Stewart, C. C.
Series: Sage series on African modernization and development ;; v. 5
Publisher: Sage Publications
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Beverly Hills
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
Subjects: Africa -- Economic conditions -- To 1918 -- Congresses; Africa -- Politics and government -- Congresses
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.
Table of contents: title: The poverty of precolonial African historiography / Donald Crummey and C.C. Stewart; title: In search of the monarch : introduction of the state among the Gamo of Ethiopia / Marc Abeles; title: Emergent  classes and the early state : the Southern Sahara / C.C. Steward; title: Lineage mode of production : social inequalities in Equatorial Central Africa / Bogumil Jewsiewicki; title: Herders and farmers : the tributary mode of production in Western Uganda / Edward I. Steinhart; title: The slave mode of production : precolonial Dahomey / Roberta Walker Kilkenny; title: Fishing for the state : the political economy of the Middle Niger Valley / Richard Roberts; title: Production, penetration, and political formation : the Bida State, 1857-1901 / Michael Mason; title: State and society : 19th century Ethiopia /Donald Crummey.