"This volume is the product of a series of collaborative meetings and workshops between 2010 and 2014."--Acknowledgements.
In Poverty and Wealth in East Africa Rhiannon Stephens offers a conceptual history of how people living in eastern Uganda have sustained and changed their ways of thinking about wealth and poverty over the past two thousand years.
An updated and comprehensive single-volume history covering all periods from human origins to contemporary African situations.
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"This volume covers the period from the end of the Neolithic era to the beginning of the seventh century of our era.
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