Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The comparative history of the poor
- 2 Christian Ethiopia
- 3 The Islamic tradition
- 4 Poverty and power
- 5 Poverty and pastoralism
- 6 Yoruba and Igbo
- 7 Early European initiatives
- 8 Poverty in South Africa, 1886–1948
- 9 Rural poverty in colonial Africa
- 10 Urban poverty in tropical Africa
- 11 The care of the poor in colonial Africa
- 12 Leprosy
- 13 The growth of poverty in independent Africa
- 14 The transformation of poverty in southern Africa
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 31 October 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- 1 The comparative history of the poor
- 2 Christian Ethiopia
- 3 The Islamic tradition
- 4 Poverty and power
- 5 Poverty and pastoralism
- 6 Yoruba and Igbo
- 7 Early European initiatives
- 8 Poverty in South Africa, 1886–1948
- 9 Rural poverty in colonial Africa
- 10 Urban poverty in tropical Africa
- 11 The care of the poor in colonial Africa
- 12 Leprosy
- 13 The growth of poverty in independent Africa
- 14 The transformation of poverty in southern Africa
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- The African PoorA History, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1987