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The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640-1945 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
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The Impoverishment of the African Red Sea Littoral, 1640-1945 (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: Palgrave Series in Indian Ocean World Studies
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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.
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