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A Rural Economy Anatomized - Population, Prosperity and Poverty. Rural Kano, 1900 and 1970. By Polly Hill. Cambridge University Press, 1977. Pp. 240. £8.50.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

Paul E. Lovejoy
Paul E. Lovejoy
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York University, Toronto
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The Journal of African History , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , April 1979 , pp. 304 - 305
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References

1 Hogendorn, J. S., ‘The Origins of the Groundnut Trade in Northern Nigeria’, in Eicher, Carl K. and Liedhelm, Carl (eds.), Growth and Development of the Nigerian Economy (East Lansing, 1970)Google Scholar. This is a summary of Hogendorn's Ph.D. thesis, University of London, 1966Google Scholar, which has been revised for publication with Ahmadu Bello University Press. At the Kano Seminar, referred to in Hill's introduction, Hogendorn also presented another paper on this topic.

2 Imam Imoru's account of the Hausa, and especially Kano, economy was first published as Mischlich, Adam, Uber die Kulturen im Mittel-Sudan (Berlin, 1942)Google Scholar, but has subsequently been translated in Ferguson, Douglas, ‘Nineteenth Century Hausaland, being a description by Imam Imoru’, Ph.D. thesis, UCLA, 1973.Google Scholar