Essays on the political economy of rural Africa

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Title:	Essays on the political economy of rural Africa
Author:	Bates, Robert H.
Year:	1983
Issue:	38
Pages:	178
Language:	English
Series:	African studies series (ISSN 0065-406X)
City of publisher:	Cambridge Cambridgeshire
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
ISBN:	052124563X; 0521271010
Geographic term:	Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:	farmers political economy agricultural development
Abstract:	From the dustjacket: 'This book addresses several of the classic question in African studies. In the precolonial era, what were the sources of order in societies without states? And what were the origins of 'traditional' states in Africa? In the colonial period, what caused the divergent patterns of agricultural development? And what were the issues that drove the peasantry into the rebellions which brought an end to colonial rule? Since independence, what has been the fate of the African peasantry? What has been the content of the agricultural policies by the governments of Africa? And how can these policies be accounted for? In anseering these questions, the book explores various forms of explanation and advances a form of political economy based upon rational-choice analysis'.