| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 250 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
African histories and modernities |
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African histories and modernities.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Foreword -- Preface and Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- A History of the Present -- African Famine History and Colonial Government -- An Analysis of Government -- Sources -- Outline -- Chapter 2: Famine and Colonial Conquest -- Colonialism and the Transformation of Food Scarcity -- The 'Great Famine' -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: Scarcity, State Control and the First World War -- Official Responses -- Long-Term Effects -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Scarcity and Settler Consolidation -- The 1929-1930 Famine |
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Government Responses -- Political Controversy -- Reframing the Problem -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Depression and Dearth -- Production and Marketing Policy -- Scarcity, Soil and Population -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Scarcity, State Control and War: Redux -- Famine Relief -- The Path to Maize Control -- Scarcity Worsens -- Production and Marketing -- Rationing, Distribution and Pricing -- Further Relief and Coping Strategies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: Setting the Agenda -- Nutrition and the Failure of a Needs-Based Policy -- Post-War Kenyan Food Systems and Policy -- Conclusion |
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Chapter 8: Epilogue -- Chapter 9: Conclusion -- The Coproduction of State, Scarcity and Market -- Kenya and the History of African Food and Famine -- Critical History and Food Security -- Appendix: Note on Primary Sources -- Bibliography -- Archival Records -- The National Archives of the United Kingdom (TNA) -- Bodleian Library at University of Oxford -- Government and Other Reports -- Published Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
This 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. James Duminy is Lecturer in Human Geography at the University of Bristol, UK |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed October 31, 2022) |
| Subject |
Food security -- Kenya
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Famines -- Kenya
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Economic history
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Famines
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Food security
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| SUBJECT |
Kenya -- History -- To 1963.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071999
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Kenya -- Economic conditions -- To 1963.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071995
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| Subject |
Kenya
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031109645 |
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3031109643 |
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