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The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 16401945 Steven Serels

The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 16401945 By Steven Serels

The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 16401945 by Steven Serels


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Steven Serels charts the erosion of this moral economy, a slow-moving process that began during the Little Ice Age mega-drought of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continued through the devastating famines of the twentieth century.

The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 16401945 Summary

The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 16401945 by Steven Serels

The African Red Sea Littoral, currently divided between Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, is one of the poorest regions in the world. But the pastoralist communities indigenous to this region were not always poorhistorically, they had access to a variety of resources that allowed them to prosper in the harsh, arid environment. This access was mediated by a robust moral economy of pastoralism that acted as a social safety net. Steven Serels charts the erosion of this moral economy, a slow-moving process that began during the Little Ice Age mega-drought of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continued through the devastating famines of the twentieth century. By examining mass sedentarization after the Second World War as merely the latest manifestation of an inter-generational environmental and economic crisis, this book offers an innovative lens for understanding poverty in northeastern Africa.

About Steven Serels

Steven Serels holds a joint appointment as Research Fellow at the Zentrum fur Interdisziplinare Regionalstudien at Martin Luther Universitat Halle-Wittenberg, Germany, and as Visiting Scholar at Harvard Universitys Center for Middle Eastern Studies, USA. His first monograph is titled Starvation and the State: Famine, Slavery, and Power in Sudan, 18831956 (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Becoming Poor.- 2. Survival by Conversion, 16401840.- 3. Divided and Conquered, 18401883.- 4. War, Disease, Famine, Destruction, 18831893.- 5. An Unequal Recovery, 18931913.- 6. The Cost of Living Becomes Unaffordable, 19131945.- 7. Conclusion: Being Poor.

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NPB9783319941646
9783319941646
331994164X
The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 16401945 by Steven Serels
New
Hardback
Springer International Publishing AG
2018-09-03
204
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