Preface to the New Edition
Preface to the 1983 Edition
Abbreviations and Conventions
Bare Life and the Long Interregnum: Introduction to the New Edition
1. Introduction: The Political Economy of Food and Famine
Dimensions of the Current Food Crisis
Food Systems, Risk, and Famine
Peasants and the Development of Capitalism
Fact, Fiction, and Method
2. Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate in the Nineteenth Century
Hausaland, the Central Sudan, and the Sarauta System
Islamization and the Caliphal State
Caliphal Administration and Jihadi Ideology
The Emirates: Political and Social Structure
The Economic Structure of Society
The Labor Process and Material Life
The Social Relations of Production
Modes of Production and the Material Basis of the Caliphate
3. Food, Famine, and Climate in the Nineteenth Century
The Environmental Context of Hausaland
Drought and Famine in the Central Sudan
A Hausa Famine Chronology, 1800-1900
Moral Versus Political Economy?
Famine Genesis and Dynamics
4. Capital, State, and Peasantry in Colonial Northern Nigeria
Foundations of Colonial Capitalism
5. Hunger, Risk, and Household Security
Hausa Agronomy and Household Production
Fulani Pastoral Economy, Terms of Trade, and Agricultural Productivity
The Sociology of the Household and the "Culture" of Reproduction
Grains Trade, Domestic Storage, and the Minesfield
Class Relations and Rural Differentiation
Merchant's Capital and Simple Reproduction
State Crises and State Demands
6. Famine Over Hausaland, 1900-1960
1900-1918: Conquest, Incorporation, and Transition
1919-1939: Consolidation and the Depression Economy
1939-1960: The Wartime Economy and its Aftermath
7. Climate, Famine, and Scarcity in the 1970s
Agriculture, War, and Famine, 1960-1975
Case Study: Kaita Village, Katsina
Seasonality and Social Reproduction in Hausaland
Famine, Social Differentiation, and Class Relations
8. Food, Agriculture, and the Oil Boom, 1970-1980
Economy, Society, and the Oil Boom
Oil, State, and the Regime of Capital Accumulation
Food, Agriculture, and the Popular Classes
The Agrarian Question and Rural Development
Agrarian Transformation and the Crises of the State
