Mountain Farmers

• Part One Settlement of Mount Meru: mountain farmers - Meru and Chaga in the 17th-19th centuries; Massai farmers - Arusha and pastoral Massai in the 18th-19th centuries. Part Two Colonialism and resistance under German rule: blood on the land - Talala and the Germans, 1881-96; conquest and colonization, 1896-1916; establishment of the mission, 1902-1916. Part Three British rule 1916-61: recolonization; land, population and agricultural development; Christians, coffee, culture and class. Part Four Politics of land and authority: struggles for the land - political and moral economies of land; the politics of land and authority; the Meru land case.

... highly readable...