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Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer International Publishing A&G
ISBN-103031109635
ISBN-139783031109638
eBay Product ID (ePID)15057254255
Product Key Features
Book TitleFood and Famine in Colonial Kenya
Number of PagesXvii, 250 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2022
TopicAfrica / General, Imperialism, General, Economics / General
IllustratorYes
GenrePolitical Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorJames Duminy
Book SeriesAfrican Histories and Modernities Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight16.9 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.8 in
Additional Product Features
Dewey Edition23
Number of Volumes1 vol.
Dewey Decimal338.196762
Table Of Content1. Introduction.-2. Famine and Colonial Conquest.-3. Scarcity, State Control and the First World War.- 4. Scarcity and Settler Consolidation.- 5. Depression and Scarcity.- 6. Scarcity, State Control and War: Redux.- 7. Setting the Agenda.- 8. Conclusion.
SynopsisThis book offers a genealogical critique of how food scarcity was governed in colonial Kenya. With an approach informed by the 'analysis of government', the study accounts for the emergence and persistence of dominant approaches to promoting food security in Kenya and elsewhere in Africa - policies and practices that prioritize increased agricultural production as the principal means of achieving food security. Drawing on a range of archival sources, the book investigates how those tasked with governing colonial Kenya confronted food as a particular kind of problem. It emphasizes the ways in which that problem shifted in conjunction with the emergence and consolidation of the colonial state and economic relations in the territory. The book applies a novel conceptual approach to the historical study of African food systems and famine, and provides the first longitudinal and in-depth analysis of the dynamics of food scarcity and its government in Kenya.
LC Classification NumberDT1-3415
