A Green Place, A Good Place: Agrarian Change and Social Identity in the Great Lakes Region to the 15th Century FROM THE PUBLISHER
An evocative and poignant history of Lakes region societies in Africa from the last millennium BC to the fifteenth century.
SYNOPSIS
An evocative and poignant history of Lakes region societies in Africa from the last millennium BC to the fifteenth century.
FROM THE CRITICS
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The Great Lakes region of Africa comprises about 160,000 square miles, with Lake Victoria as one of its loci. This thorough investigation traces the many themes of the region's social change and social history, in particular, the way changes in social life and the environment mutually reinforce one another. More generally, this study develops a methodology of writing about social history before the 15th century that incorporates philosophies of gender, health, and social justice, and "narrates the dialectical historical interplay of environment, agriculture, and social practice in shaping historical experience and consciousness" (from the introduction). Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
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