9780521035514-0521035511-The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi

The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi

ISBN-13: 9780521035514
ISBN-10: 0521035511
Author: Megan Vaughan
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 192 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780521035514
ISBN-10: 0521035511
Author: Megan Vaughan
Publication date: 2007
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Format: Paperback 192 pages

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The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi (ISBN-13: 9780521035514 and ISBN-10: 0521035511), written by authors Megan Vaughan, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2007. With an overall rating of 3.9 stars, it's a notable title among other Southern Africa (African History, World History, History, Agricultural Sciences) books. You can easily purchase or rent The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Southern Africa books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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This account of the 1949 famine in colonial Malawi employs a wide variety of historical sources, ranging from Colonial Office documentation to the songs of women who lived through the tragedy. The analysis of the causes and development of the famine takes the reader through a detailed agricultural and social history of Southern Malwai in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, focusing in particular on the nature of social and economic stratification, changes in kinship systems and the position of women and placing all this within the wider context of the impact of colonial rule.
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