Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter one Methodologies and Sources for a Conceptual History of Economic Difference over the Longue Durée 22
6. Chapter two Excavating Early Ideas about Poverty and Wealth 45
7. Interchapter Overview of Climate Developments 64
8. Chapter three The Bereft and the Powerful: Greater Luhyia Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 72
9. Chapter four Gender and Honor: North Nyanza Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 99
10. Chapter five Orphans and Livestock: Nilotic Concepts of Poverty and Wealth through the Nineteenth Century 120
11. Chapter six Wealth, Poverty, and the Colonial Economy: Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries 144
12. Conclusion 167
13. Appendix: Reconstructed Vocabulary 171
14. Notes 207
15. Bibliography 253
16. Index 277