AGRICULTURE AND AFRICAN HISTORY

Africa, agriculture
Collection: 
UKZN-IKS
Creator: 
JAMES C. MCCANN
Date: 
1991
Language: 
English
Coverage: 
AFRICA
Resource Identifier: 
https://www.jstor.org/stable/182667
Resource type: 
Journal article
File Type: 
Document
Extent: 
8 pages
Publisher: 
Cambridge University Press
Rights Holder: 
Boston University
Source: 
The Journal of African History

In I986 when Sara Berry and I organized a graduate seminar on 'Agriculture in African History', our search of the literature for the reading list yielded primarily works of social and economic history for which agriculture was, to greater or lesser degree, a touchstone rather than a primary focus. For the most part, African agricultural history has been subsumed in the past two decades under broader rubrics of economic, social, or political history and treated under a more general interest in peasant studies. Thus most historians have focused more on agriculture as a sub-field of political economy than as an agenda for the study of field systems, technology, and cropping patterns. Moreover, the most influential work has been done by scholars formally trained in other fields, including economics, geography, archaeology, and anthropology.

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Nelisiwe Ndlovu
04/17/2019 - 08:58