04463nam 2200709Ia 450 991095744640332120200520144314.097866126228479780585316512058531651197812826228451282622846978029917613602991761342027/heb02636(CKB)1000000000397132(dli)HEB02636(SSID)ssj0000084651(PQKBManifestationID)11112771(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084651(PQKBWorkID)10170435(PQKB)10378283(MiAaPQ)EBC3445009(OCoLC)45728370(MdBmJHUP)muse12449(Au-PeEL)EBL3445009(CaPaEBR)ebr10394938(OCoLC)806104548(MiU)MIU01000000000000005053735(Perlego)4386297(EXLCZ)99100000000039713219940929d1995 ub 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrPeople of the plow an agricultural history of Ethiopia, 1800-1990 /James C. McCann1st ed.Madison, Wis. University of Wisconsin Pressc19951 online resource (xviii, 298 p. )ill., maps ;Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph9780299146108 0299146103 9780299146146 0299146146 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.For more than two thousand years, Ethiopia's ox-plow agricultural system was the most efficient and innovative in Africa, but has been afflicted in the recent past by a series of crises: famine, declining productivity, and losses in biodiversity. James C. McCann analyzes the last two hundred years of agricultural history in Ethiopia to determine whether the ox-plow agricultural system has adapted to population growth, new crops, and the challenges of a modern political economy based in urban centers. This agricultural history is set in the context of the larger environmental and landscape history of Ethiopia, showing how farmers have integrated crops, tools, and labor with natural cycles of rainfall and soil fertility, as well as with the social vagaries of changing political systems. McCann traces characteristic features of Ethiopian farming, such as the single-tine scratch plow, which has retained a remarkably consistent design over two millennia, and a crop repertoire that is among the most genetically diverse in the world. People of the Plow provides detailed documentation of Ethiopian agricultural practices since the early nineteenth century by examining travel narratives, early agricultural surveys, photographs and engravings, modern farming systems research, and the testimony of farmers themselves, collected during McCann's five years of fieldwork. He then traces the ways those practices have evolved in the twentieth century in response to population growth, urban markets, and the presence of new technologies. ACLS Humanities E-Book.AgricultureEthiopiaHistoryEthiopiaHistoryAgricultureHistory.306.3/49/096309143McCann James1950-896977MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910957446403321People of the plow2004215UNINA