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- catalog abstract ""Donald Crummey's work is the first extended history of Ethiopia to focus on the system of taxation and tribute, called gult, that underpinned the region's social and political structure for some seven centuries." "Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia offers an original perspective on how the rulers of Ethiopia - one of the great subcenters of agricultural innovation and development - used land to support their dominion. Crummey draws on all the surviving documents pertaining to the holding and granting of agricultural land in the Ethiopian highlands from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. By examining how social relations affected the conditions for economic production and how people of power drew on the wealth created by society's basic producers, he provides new insight into how ordinary farming and herding folk were incorporated into and affected by the institutions that ruled them." "Presenting new evidence to suggest that the nature of landed property and social class in Ethiopia was considerably more sophisticated than hitherto recognized, Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia constitutes a major challenge to previous assumptions and understandings about land and social relations in this highly structured society."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11349373.
- catalog coverage "Ethiopia History.".
- catalog coverage "Ethiopia Social conditions.".
- catalog created "c2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "c2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2000.".
- catalog description ""Donald Crummey's work is the first extended history of Ethiopia to focus on the system of taxation and tribute, called gult, that underpinned the region's social and political structure for some seven centuries."".
- catalog description ""Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia offers an original perspective on how the rulers of Ethiopia - one of the great subcenters of agricultural innovation and development - used land to support their dominion. Crummey draws on all the surviving documents pertaining to the holding and granting of agricultural land in the Ethiopian highlands from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. By examining how social relations affected the conditions for economic production and how people of power drew on the wealth created by society's basic producers, he provides new insight into how ordinary farming and herding folk were incorporated into and affected by the institutions that ruled them."".
- catalog description ""Presenting new evidence to suggest that the nature of landed property and social class in Ethiopia was considerably more sophisticated than hitherto recognized, Land and Society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia constitutes a major challenge to previous assumptions and understandings about land and social relations in this highly structured society."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 327-355) and index.".
- catalog description "Preface -- Introduction -- Gult and the state, 1200-1540 -- "Man is free; land is tributary" -- Gondär, 1632-1721: order and disorder -- Mentewwab, "how beautiful she is!" 1721-69 -- The leadership of Gälawdäwos: family and property in Gondärine Ethiopia: the era of the princes -- Church, land, and society in Gondärine Ethiopia: institutional grants -- Church, land, and society in Gondärine Ethiopia: private transfers -- Gult and the reconstruction of the monarchy, 1868-1910 -- Transformations: state, land, and society -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog extent "xv, 373 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0252024826 (hbk. : alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "c2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Urbana : University of Illinois Press,".
- catalog spatial "Ethiopia History.".
- catalog spatial "Ethiopia Social conditions.".
- catalog spatial "Ethiopia".
- catalog subject "306.3/2/0963 21".
- catalog subject "HD979 .C78 2000".
- catalog subject "Land tenure Political aspects Ethiopia History.".
- catalog subject "Land tenure Social aspects Ethiopia History.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Preface -- Introduction -- Gult and the state, 1200-1540 -- "Man is free; land is tributary" -- Gondär, 1632-1721: order and disorder -- Mentewwab, "how beautiful she is!" 1721-69 -- The leadership of Gälawdäwos: family and property in Gondärine Ethiopia: the era of the princes -- Church, land, and society in Gondärine Ethiopia: institutional grants -- Church, land, and society in Gondärine Ethiopia: private transfers -- Gult and the reconstruction of the monarchy, 1868-1910 -- Transformations: state, land, and society -- Afterword -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.".
- catalog title "Land and society in the Christian Kingdom of Ethiopia : from the thirteenth to the twentieth century / Donald Crummey.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".