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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2009
      23 April 1987
      ISBN:
      9780511549885
      9780521035514
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511549885
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      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.281kg, 192 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History, Twentieth Century Regional History
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    Area Studies, African Studies, History, African History, Twentieth Century Regional History
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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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