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About this book
Decolonization in East Africa was more than a political event: it was a step towards economic self-determination. In this innovative book, historian and anthropologist Kevin Donovan analyses the contradictions of economic sovereignty and citizenship in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda, placing money, credit, and smuggling at the center of the region's shifting fortunes. Using detailed archival and ethnographic research undertaken across the region, Donovan reframes twentieth century statecraft and argues that self-determination was, at most, partially fulfilled, with state monetary infrastructures doing as much to produce divisions and inequality as they did to produce nations. A range of dissident practices, including smuggling and counterfeiting, arose as people produced value on their own terms. Weaving together discussions of currency controls, bank nationalizations and coffee smuggling with wider conceptual interventions, Money, Value and the State traces the struggles between bankers, bureaucrats, farmers and smugglers that shaped East Africa's postcolonial political economy.
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HistoryTable of contents
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series information
- Title page
- Imprints page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction: The Government of Value, 1945–1980
- 1 The Moneychanger State: Money after the End of Empire
- 2 A Monopoly on Valuation: Economic Sovereignty and Citizenship in Uganda
- 3 Restricted Value: Bank Nationalization and the Price of Decolonization in Tanzania
- 4 Crimes against Economy: The Economy of Accusation in 1970s Uganda
- 5 Magendo: Arbitrage and Ambiguity on an East African Frontier
- Conclusion: A Neoliberal Government of Value
- Archival Collections Consulted
- Bibliography
- Index
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