Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- I. Economics as Politics -- Chapter 1. Economics as If People Mattered -- Chapter 2. Life on the Long Roller Coaster -- Chapter 3. The Obsolescence of New...

Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Translation and Orthography -- Introduction: Tenure, Wealth, and Environment -- Part 1: Stories of conquest -- 1 Nachituti's Gift: The Kazembe Kingdom and Owners of the Land -- 2 The Colonial Net: Chiefs on a Colonial Border --...