Mountain Farmers: Moral Economies of Land & Agricultural Development in Arusha & Meru

by Thomas Spear

Book Overview

Studies the impact of colonialism on a mountainous region of Tanzania.

This work examines the struggle between the Meru and Arusha peoples and their German and British rulers over the issue of land and agricultural development on Mount Meru in northern Tanzania. It shows how the Meru and Arashi, faced with an iron ring of land alienated by European settlers successfully intensified their own irrigated agriculture to bring about what has been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 085255737X
• ISBN13: 9780852557372
• Release Date: January 1997
• Publisher: James Currey
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.1"