Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Maps -- Tables -- Transliteration -- Preface -- Prologue: Fanus, Agriculture, and History -- Part I. The Plow and the Land -- 1. The Salubrious Highlands: A Historical Setting -- 2. The Ox-Plow Complex: an Ecological Revolution -- 3. Fanus in the Agrarian Polity: Historical Trends in Population,Fanu Resources, and Specialized Agriculture, 1800-1916 -- Part II. The Plow and Ethiopian Historical Landscapes -- 4. From Royal Fields to Marginal Lands: Agriculture in Ankober, Shawa, 1840-1990 -- 5. The Plow in the Forest: Agriculture, Population, and Maize Monoculture in Gera -- 6. Addis Ababa's Kitchen: Food, Forage, and Intensification in a Closed Ox-Plow Economy, Ada 1800-1990 -- 7. Conclusion: People of the Plow, People of the City -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Crop Names -- Appendix B: Glossary of Agricultural Terms -- Bibliography -- Index. |