TY - BOOK ID - 806650 TI - Essays on the political economy of rural Africa PY - 1983 VL - 38 SN - 052124563X 0521271010 0511558740 9780521245630 9780511558740 9780521271011 PB - Cambridge: Cambridge university press, DB - UniCat KW - Third World: economic development problems KW - Africa KW - Economic conditions. KW - Agriculture KW - -Agriculture and state KW - -Nuer (African people) KW - Peasantry KW - -Peasantry KW - Agricultural laborers KW - Rural population KW - Marks (Medieval land tenure) KW - Villeinage KW - Naadh (African people) KW - Naath (African people) KW - Nuer (African tribe) KW - Ethnology KW - Nilotic peoples KW - Agrarian question KW - Agricultural policy KW - State and agriculture KW - Economic policy KW - Land reform KW - Farming KW - Husbandry KW - Industrial arts KW - Life sciences KW - Food supply KW - Land use, Rural KW - Economic aspects KW - -Government policy KW - Eastern Hemisphere KW - Rural conditions. KW - Agriculture and state KW - Nuer (African people) KW - Peasants KW - Nuer (African people). KW - -Economic aspects KW - -Africa KW - Developing countries: economic development problems KW - Social Sciences KW - Political Science KW - Africa - Economic conditions. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:806650 AB - This book addresses several of the classic questions in African Studies. In the pre-colonial era what were the sources of order in societies without states? And what were the origins of 'traditional' states in Africa? In the colonial period, what caused the divergent patterns of agricultural development? And what were the issues that drove the peasantry into the rebellions which brought an end to colonial rule? Since independence what has been the fate of the African peasantry? What has been the content of the agricultural policies adopted by the governments of Africa? And how can these policies be accounted for? In answering these questions, the book explores various forms of explanation and advances a form of political economy based upon rational-choice analysis. ER -