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Russia's age of serfdom, 1649-1861
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ISBN: 9781405134576 9781405134583 Year: 2008 Publisher: Malden, MA : Oxford Victoria : Blackwell Publishing,

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Russia's Age of Serfdom 1649-1861 offers a broad interpretive history of the Russian Empire from the time of serfdom's codification until its abolition following the Crimean War. Considers the institution of serfdom, official social categories, and Russia's development as a country of peasants ruled by nobles, military commanders, and civil servants Illuminates the reality of absolute monarchy in Russia, with special emphasis on the mobilization of human and material resources, the search for regular government, and the persistence of personal-moral forms of authority Traces the emergence of modern Russian culture out of and alongside Orthodox religious culture


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Dostoevsky's democracy
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ISBN: 9780691136141 Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton ; Oxford Princeton University Press

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Slavery and the British Empire : from Africa to America
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ISBN: 9780199238996 Year: 2008 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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Liberata : a lei da ambigüidade as ações de liberdade da Corte de Apelação do Rio de Janeiro no século XIX
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ISBN: 9788599662762 Year: 2008 Publisher: SciELO Books - Centro Edelstein

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Liberata was a real-life character. Slave, then free, mother as a slave and mother already released, finally defunct, all in the first half of the 19th century. In this book, Liberata is almost fiction, or rather, an author of fiction. She proposes the enigma of her life, as recorded in the centenary documents kept by the National Archives in Rio de Janeiro, and she guides the investigator through the labyrinths of interpretation and evidence that will allow to decipher the enigma itself.


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Menschenraub, Menschenhandel und Sklaverei in antiker und moderner Perspektive : Ergebnisse des Mitarbeitertreffens des Akademievorhabens Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei (Mainz, 10. Oktober 2006).
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ISBN: 9783515090773 3515090770 Year: 2008 Volume: 37 Publisher: Stuttgart Steiner


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African land questions, agrarian transitions and the state
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ISBN: 2869782020 9786612901232 286978340X 2869783841 1282901230 2869782659 9782869782020 9782869783843 9782869782655 9781282901230 6612901233 9782869783409 Year: 2008 Publisher: Dakar, Senegal Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa

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This empirically grounded study provides a critical reflection on the land question in Africa, research on which tends to be tangential, conceptually loose and generally inadequate. It argues that the most pressing research concern must be to understand the precise nature of the African land question, its land reforms and their effects on development. To unravel the roots of land conflicts in Africa requires thorough understanding of the complex social and political contradictions which have ensued from colonial and post-colonial land policies, as well as from Africa's 'development' and capita


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In the land of the chiefs
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ISBN: 9048502209 9789048502202 9789087280413 Year: 2008 Publisher: [Leiden] Leiden University Press

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This book studies practices of land management in peri-urban Ghana where traditional leadership forms a vibrant part of social life


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Agricultural support, farm land values and sectoral adjustment : the implications for policy reform.
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ISBN: 1281719234 9786611719234 9264031731 9264031723 Year: 2008 Publisher: Paris : OECD,

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Governments intervene in the agricultural sector through policies that both support and shape agricultural production. This leads to two important outcomes. First, agriculture specific programmes intended to increase the welfare of farmers can become capitalised into asset values. Second, many policies, in particular regulatory ones, reduce asset mobility, resulting in reduced economic efficiency due a sub-optimal allocation of resources. This study focuses on the capitalisation of government support into land rents and prices. It assesses the consequences of inflated asset values, and suggests lessons for future policy making.


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Deep roots
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ISBN: 9780253352194 0253352193 9786612238291 1282238299 0253002966 9780253002969 9781282238299 6612238291 Year: 2008 Publisher: Bloomington Indiana University Press

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Mangrove rice farming on West Africa's Rice Coast was the mirror image of tidewater rice plantations worked by enslaved Africans in 18th-century South Carolina and Georgia. This book reconstructs the development of rice-growing technology among the Baga and Nalu of coastal Guinea, beginning more than a millennium before the transatlantic slave trade. It reveals a picture of dynamic pre-colonial coastal societies, quite unlike the static, homogenous pre-modern Africa of previous scholarship. From its examination of inheritance, innovation, and borrowing, Deep Roots fashions a theory of cultural change that encompasses the diversity of communities, cultures, and forms of expression in Africa and the African diaspora.


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