Eastern African Studies

Population & Environment in Western Uganda 1860-1955

By: Shane Doyle

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Hardcover | 15 June 2006

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The Kingdom of Bunyoro's story demonstrates convincingly that environmental change there was not a uniform, statewide process. In one of the first studies of the political ecology of a major African kingdom, Crisis & Decline in Bunyoro addresses state capacity, ideology, and government legitimacy as crucial issues. Shane Doyle particularly focuses on the interplay between levels of environmental activity within a highly stratified society. Political ecology was as much about the differential impact of conflict on society as it was about the uneven extraction and distribution of resources.The author, Shane Doyle, is a lecturer in history at Leeds University

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"This work is a welcome and salutory history of colonial loss and decline that incorporates colonial politics and policy, but goes beyond to focus on demographics, disease, and environment. Summing Up: Highly recommended." -- CHOICE
"Although some might contend that Bunyoro's experience was atypical for colonial Uganda, it is nevertheless valuable for historians to have access to studies like this as it important to understand the experience of all regions of colonial East Africa."
"Arguably the most important study of a much-neglected society in more than thirty years." -- African Affairs

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List of Figures, Maps and Plates	p. viii
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Bunyoro & the demographic & environmental history of Africa
Environmental history in East Africa
Bunyoro's place in interlacustrine historiography
The State & Pre-Colonial Ecology, Health & Demography	p. 11
The pre-colonial state
Ancient history
The Nyoro state
The environment
Geographical description of Bunyoro
The Banyoro's relationship with their environment
Agriculture Livestock
Hunting & fishing
The craft economy
Famine
Traditional medicine
Health
Demography
Population distribution
Conclusion
Crisis & Reform in the Age of Kamurasi & Kabaleega 1860-1890	p. 42
Long-distance trade
Egypt's equatoria empire
The end of Equatoria
Kabaleega's political reforms
Military developments
Bunyoro in 1890
Bunyoro's expansionism
Conclusion
The Origins, Nature & Impact of Conquest	p. 61
Lugard & Bunyoro
The retention of Buganda & the fight for the Nile
The origins of the war: Rosebery's imperialism & local aggression
The first invasion
The nature of the conquest
The nature of Bunyoro's resistance
The lost counties
The politics of the occupation
The impact of the war: famine, disease and demographic collapse
Conclusion
Politics in Bunyoro 1900-24, 'A conquered country' & 'a useless race'	p. 94
Ganda sub-imperialism & the origins of Nyangire
The aftermath of Nyangire
Negative stereotypes, secondary status & administrative instability
Chiefly repression & exploitation
Conclusion
Bunyoro's Economy 1900-24	p. 111
Traditional industries
Environmental change & the collapse of the livestock economy
Environmental policy & management
Game
The early failure of the modern economy
Land tenure
Communications & transport
Tax & labour
Cotton
Conclusion
Famine, Disease & Demography 1900-24	p. 134
Demography
The evidence for population decline
Marriage & fertility
The cultural context of demographic decline
Migration
Famine & malnutrition
Disease
Sleeping sickness
Origins
Disease control
Sexually-transmitted diseases
Morality & propaganda
The nature of the epidemic
Colonial medicine, spiritual solace & traditional healing
Conclusion
Neglect & Nostalgia Politics 1924-55	p. 164
Bunyoro's colonial heyday, 1924-45
The 1931 kibanja land reform
The 1933 Agreement
The changing nature of official discrimination, 1945-55
Banyoro's continuing fear & mistrust of British officials
Modernizers versus traditionalists
The lost counties campaign
Bunyoro's chiefs & their people
Conclusion
Bunyoro's Economy 1924-55	p. 183
Economic attitudes, policy & development
Cash crops
Cotton
Tobacco
Coffee
Ambition & suspicion: differentiation in colonial Bunyoro
Game, cattle & the environment
Game policy
Cattle
The environment
Conclusion
Disease and Demography 1924-55	p. 210
Mistrust of modernity, gender conflict & the demographic crisis
Marriage
Bridewealth & the weakening of marriage
Polygamy & divorce
Late colonial healthcare
Disease
Sexually-transmitted diseases
Prevalence & impact
Treatment & control
Nutrition
The impact of malnutrition on health and fertility
Government efforts to control malnutrition
Breastfeeding & birth spacing
Demography
Census data
Village surveys
Conclusion
Conclusion	p. 246
Bibliography	p. 250
Oral informants
Archival sources
Unpublished dissertations
Books and chapters in books
Articles
Index	p. 270
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