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Book Synopsis
Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years.

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Introduction 1
1. Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Durée 22
2. Excavating Early Ideas about Poverty and Wealth 45
Interchapter. Overview of Climate Developments 64
3. The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 72
4. Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 99
5. Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 120
6. Wealth, Poverty, and the Colonial Economy: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 144
Conclusion 167
Appendix. Reconstructed Vocabulary 171
Notes 207
Bibliography 254
Index 277

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      Publisher: Duke University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 01/11/2022
      ISBN13: 9781478018827, 978-1478018827
      ISBN10: 1478018828
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years.

      Table of Contents
      Acknowledgments xi
      Introduction 1
      1. Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Durée 22
      2. Excavating Early Ideas about Poverty and Wealth 45
      Interchapter. Overview of Climate Developments 64
      3. The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 72
      4. Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 99
      5. Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 120
      6. Wealth, Poverty, and the Colonial Economy: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 144
      Conclusion 167
      Appendix. Reconstructed Vocabulary 171
      Notes 207
      Bibliography 254
      Index 277

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