Society, Power, and Land in Northeastern Zimbabwe, ca. 1560-1960

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This book details a long and neglected history of struggles over land and power and their entanglement with colonial policies in Zimbabwe. It centers land in precolonial political relations and recasts questions of land to incorporate both the inequities rooted in older forms of social difference, including kinship and gender, and those caused by the interventions of the colonial state.

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ISBN/GTIN978-0-8214-2588-6

Product TypeBook

BindingHardcover

PublisherOhio University Press

Publishing date12/11/2024

LanguageEnglish

SizeWidth 152 mm, Height 229 mm

Article no.29228899

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Data source no.A49519563

Product groupBU949

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