Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Maps, Illustrations, and Table IX
4. List of Abbreviations X
5. Transliteration XI
6. Preface and Acknowledgments 1
7. Introduction 3
8. Part One. Land, Society, and Production
9. 1. The Context of Local History: Demography and Ecology in Northern Wallo 17
10. 2. Ershe Balahu: Rural Society and Production in Northern Wallo 39
11. 3. The Farm Economy of Northern Wallo: Oxen, Trade, and the Production Equation 68
12. 4. Historical Tradition and Moral Order 89
13. Part Two. Northern Wallo and the Imperial System
14. 5. The Localization of Empire: Northern Wallo in the Empire State, 1900-1920 109
15. 6. The State and Rural Society in Northern Wallo: Households and the Imperial Order 127
16. 7. The Dynamics of Rural Rebellion: Northern Resistance to the New Imperial Polity, 1928-1935 146
17. 8. Peasants and Paupers: The impoverishment of the Household Economy in Northern Wallo 173
18. Epilogue: The Future of Northern Wallo’s Economy: Evidence from post-1935 199
19. Bibliography 209
20. Index 221