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The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945

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Title/Author:	The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945/ by Steven Serels.
Author:	Serels, Steven.
Description:	XV, 204 p. 3 illus.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Africa—History. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-94165-3
ISBN:	9783319941653

The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945
Serels, Steven.

The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640–1945[electronic resource] /by Steven Serels. - 1st ed. 2018. - XV, 204 p. 3 illus.online resource. - Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies,2730-9703. - Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies,.

1. Introduction: Becoming Poor -- 2. Survival by Conversion, 1640–1840 -- 3. Divided and Conquered, 1840–1883 -- 4. War, Disease, Famine, Destruction, 1883–1893 -- 5. An Unequal Recovery, 1893–1913 -- 6. The Cost of Living Becomes Unaffordable, 1913–1945 -- 7. Conclusion: Being Poor.

The African Red Sea Littoral, currently divided between Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, is one of the poorest regions in the world. But the pastoralist communities indigenous to this region were not always poor—historically, they had access to a variety of resources that allowed them to prosper in the harsh, arid environment. This access was mediated by a robust moral economy of pastoralism that acted as a social safety net. Steven Serels charts the erosion of this moral economy, a slow-moving process that began during the Little Ice Age mega-drought of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and continued through the devastating famines of the twentieth century. By examining mass sedentarization after the Second World War as merely the latest manifestation of an inter-generational environmental and economic crisis, this book offers an innovative lens for understanding poverty in northeastern Africa.

ISBN: 9783319941653

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-94165-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1254159
Africa—History.

LC Class. No.: DT1-3415

Dewey Class. No.: 960

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