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Seasonal Hunger in the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast, circa 1900-1940
Economic History of Developing Regions Pub Date : 2017-07-18 , DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2017.1340093
Paul Shaffer

ABSTRACT There are ongoing controversies about the effects of colonial-era policies on hunger – and the nature of hunger in precolonial societies – in the Global South which have proved difficult to adjudicate because of the fragmentary nature of empirical information. The twin facts of the relatively recent incorporation of the Northern Territories of the Gold Coast into the British Empire (1896) along with an interesting assortment of data on hunger from the early colonial period allow for certain inferences to be drawn about these debates. The Northern Territories is an interesting case in that it is characterized by poor soil quality, variable and seasonal rainfall, minimal experience with cash crops, limited forced labour recruitment and the late introduction of direct taxation. Overall, the data do paint a picture of severe seasonal hunger in the early colonial period, circa 1900–40, but do not suggest that colonial policies or practices had a pronounced impact either way, pointing to the likelihood that seasonal hunger is a long-standing phenomenon which predates colonial rule.

中文翻译:

黄金海岸北部地区的季节性饥饿,大约1900-1940年

摘要在全球南方,关于殖民时代政策对饥饿的影响以及前殖民地社会中饥饿的性质一直存在争议,由于经验性信息的零碎性质,这些争议已被证明难以裁决。相对较新的事实是,黄金海岸的北领地并入大英帝国(1896年),以及殖民时期初期有关饥饿的有趣数据,这使得可以对这些辩论做出某些推论。北领地是一个有趣的案例,其特征是土壤质量差,降雨多雨和季节性变化,经济作物经验最少,强迫劳动招募有限以及直接征税较晚。全面的,
更新日期:2017-07-18
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