Peasants Against the State
Subtitle: The Politics of Market Control in Bugisu, Uganda, 1900-1983
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: November 1, 1986
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 284
ISBN-13: 9780252012884
Subjects: Rural communities; Rural Sociology; Agriculture; Agriculture and state; Bugisu (District); Peasantry; Political activity; Societies; Uganda
First sentence: The metropolitan demand for raw materials and the colonial state's need to reduce production and administrative costs led the British to introduce cash cropping into indigenous subsistence and land-tenure systems and to coopt indigenous authorities into colonial administration.