The Punjab--an area now divided between Pakistan and India--experienced significant
economic growth under British rule from the second half of the nineteenth century. This …

“No condition is permanent,” a popular West African slogan, expresses Sara S. Berry's
theme: the obstacles to African agrarian development never stay the same. Her book …

The five books discussed in this review article deal either with famine or with related issues
concerning access to food in South Asia. Famine is a powerful but distorting lens through …

Ever since the First World War, socialists have considered imperialism a calamity:
responsible for militarism, economic stagnation, and assaults on democracy in the …

A new edition of this widely used text covers the last two centuries of Indian history,
concluding with an epilogue written from the perspective of the 1990s. It thematically and …

First published in 1986, this work challenges underdevelopment analyses of Africa's past
experiences and future prospects, and builds upon a very wide range of recent historical …

In this article, I examine the cultural politics of development in a Zimbabwean resettlement
scheme, situating state interventions in the deep histories of colonial efforts to discipline …

Covering the entire continent from Morocco, Libya, and Egypt in the north to the Cape of
Good Hope in the south, and the surrounding islands from Cape Verde in the west to …

The role of markets in linking local communities to larger networks of commerce, culture, and
political power is the central element in Anand A. Yang's provocative and original study …

The nineteenth century in Africa was a time of revolution and tumultuous change in virtually
all spheres. Violent dry spells, the staggered abolition of the slave trade, mass migrations …