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Crisis & decline in Bunyoro : population & environment in western Uganda 1860-1955 / Shane Doyle.
Van Pelt Library GE190.U33 D64 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Doyle, Shane (Shane Declan)
- Series:
- Eastern African studies (London, England)
- Eastern African studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--Uganda--Bunyoro--History--19th century.
- Environmental policy.
- Environmental policy--Uganda--Bunyoro--History--20th century.
- Environmental management--Uganda--Bunyoro--History--19th century.
- Environmental management.
- Environmental management--Uganda--Bunyoro--History--20th century.
- Human ecology--Uganda--Bunyoro--History--19th century.
- Human ecology.
- Human ecology--Uganda--Bunyoro--History--20th century.
- History.
- Bunyoro (Uganda)--Population--Environmental aspects.
- Bunyoro (Uganda).
- Uganda--Bunyoro.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Crisis and decline in Bunyoro
- Place of Publication:
- London : British Institute in Eastern Africa ; Oxford : In Association with James Currey ; Kampala : Fountain Publishers ; Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- The crucial event was the invasion of Bunyoro by British forces in 1893. By 1899, when her resistance was finally broken, much of Bunyoro's best rangeland had been transferred to her neighbours, and what remained of the kingdom was largely depopulated and overrun by disease-bearing insects and game. As a consequence of this ecological disaster Bunyoro had the lowest livestock levels in colonial East Africa. The lack of livestock lay at the heart of the problems of malnutrition, low marriage rates, poverty and emigration that, in combination with high rates of sexually transmitted diseases, obstructed Bunyoro's demographic recovery for half a century.
- This book addresses a number of issues of contemporary relevance. It considers the conflict between traditional African rulers and the modern state, the relationship between demography and environmental change, the history of STDs, and the impact of cash-cropping on rural inequality.
- The book also examines one society's reaction to a period of prolonged, rapid population decline, a trauma that seems likely to become ever more common in Africa in years to come. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Bunyoro & the demographic & environmental history of Africa
- Environmental history in East Africa
- Bunyoro's place in interlacustrine historiography
- 1 The State & Pre-Colonial Ecology, Health & Demography 11
- The pre-colonial state
- Ancient history
- The Nyoro state
- The environment
- Geographical description of Bunyoro
- The Banyoro's relationship with their environment
- Agriculture Livestock
- Hunting & fishing
- The craft economy
- Famine
- Traditional medicine
- Health
- Demography
- Population distribution
- 2 Crisis & Reform in the Age of Kamurasi & Kabaleega 1860-1890 42
- Long-distance trade
- Egypt's equatoria empire
- The end of Equatoria
- Kabaleega's political reforms
- Military developments
- Bunyoro in 1890
- Bunyoro's expansionism
- 3 The Origins, Nature & Impact of Conquest 61
- Lugard & Bunyoro
- The retention of Buganda & the fight for the Nile
- The origins of the war: Rosebery's imperialism & local aggression
- The first invasion
- The nature of the conquest
- The nature of Bunyoro's resistance
- The lost counties
- The politics of the occupation
- The impact of the war: famine, disease and demographic collapse
- 4 Politics in Bunyoro 1900-24, 'A conquered country' & 'a useless race' 94
- Ganda sub-imperialism & the origins of Nyangire
- The aftermath of Nyangire
- Negative stereotypes, secondary status & administrative instability
- Chiefly repression & exploitation
- 5 Bunyoro's Economy 1900-24 111
- Traditional industries
- Environmental change & the collapse of the livestock economy
- Environmental policy & management
- Game
- The early failure of the modern economy
- Land tenure
- Communications & transport
- Tax & labour
- Cotton
- 6 Famine, Disease & Demography 1900-24 134
- The evidence for population decline
- Marriage & fertility
- The cultural context of demographic decline
- Migration
- Famine & malnutrition
- Disease
- Sleeping sickness
- Origins
- Disease control
- Sexually-transmitted diseases
- Morality & propaganda
- The nature of the epidemic
- Colonial medicine, spiritual solace & traditional healing
- 7 Neglect & Nostalgia Politics 1924-55 164
- Bunyoro's colonial heyday, 1924-45
- The 1931 kibanja land reform
- The 1933 Agreement
- The changing nature of official discrimination, 1945-55
- Banyoro's continuing fear & mistrust of British officials
- Modernizers versus traditionalists
- The lost counties campaign
- Bunyoro's chiefs & their people
- 8 Bunyoro's Economy 1924-55 183
- Economic attitudes, policy & development
- Cash crops
- Tobacco
- Coffee
- Ambition & suspicion: differentiation in colonial Bunyoro
- Game, cattle & the environment
- Game policy
- Cattle
- 9 Disease and Demography 1924-55 210
- Mistrust of modernity, gender conflict & the demographic crisis
- Marriage
- Bridewealth & the weakening of marriage
- Polygamy & divorce
- Late colonial healthcare
- Prevalence & impact
- Treatment & control
- Nutrition
- The impact of malnutrition on health and fertility
- Government efforts to control malnutrition
- Breastfeeding & birth spacing
- Census data
- Village surveys
- Oral informants
- Archival sources
- Unpublished dissertations
- Books and chapters in books
- Articles.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 250-269) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0821416332
- 9780821416334
- 0821416340
- 9780821416341
- 085255432X
- 9780852554326
- 0852554311
- 9780852554319
- 9970025376
- 9789970025374
- OCLC:
- 61362175
- Online:
- Publisher description
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