Capsule Review Fall 1978 Issue

The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa

Edited by Robin Palmer and Neil Parsons
Reviewed by Jennifer Seymour Whitaker

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The Roots of Rural Poverty in Central and Southern Africa

Edited by Robin Palmer and Neil Parsons
University of California Press, 1978
448 pp. $16.50
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This group of essays focuses on a little-known area - the pre-colonial economies and their alteration under the impact of white rule - providing a useful background for understanding development patterns today.