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Title: | LAND AND SOCIETY IN THE CHRISTIAN KINGDOM OF ETHIOPIA | |
| Author: | D.CRUMMEY | |
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| Publisher: | JAMES CURREY | ||
| Distributor: | PLYMBRIDGE | ||
| ISBN: | 0852557639 | ||
| Format/Size: | 151X235MM HB | ||
| Pages: | 371 | ||
| Publication Date: | 2000 | ||
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| Description: | 2000 Gult, a system of land tenure encompassing both taxation and tribute, is unique to highland Ethiopia. It was through gult that Ethiopian states and their rulers affected the lives of ordinary people: limiting their productive autonomy, bringing together producers and privileged, providing the means whereby the former supported the latter. An understanding of gult is of central importance for understanding how historic Ethiopia itself worked. Donald Crummey offers the most complete and exhaustive study of gult to date. Using land documents dating from the 13th century to 1910, he is able to produce a rich social history of the shifting relations between rulers and farmers: between those who possessed tribute rights, and those who held rights to land. He examines the relations between tribute payers and tribute receivers, and the state's role in regulating competing claims in a system which endured for some six centuries. Donald Crummey is Professor of History at the University of Illinois Champaign/Urbana |
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