Department of History

History 301: Food and Famine in African History

Holly Hanson

Spring 2004, Mt. Holyoke College, Thurs. 1:00 - 4:00 pm

Synopsis:

This is an intensive reading course that examines African agrarian history from the beginnings of agriculture to a critique of development practice in the present.  It uses Amartya Sen=s concept of famine as a collapse of food entitlement to structure a social analysis of the transformation of food production. 

Syllabus: History 301, Fall 2001 (Save as PDF)

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