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Population in African History

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2009

C. C. Wrigley
C. C. Wrigley
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University of Sussex
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The Journal of African History , Volume 20 , Issue 1 , January 1979 , pp. 127 - 131
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1979

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References

1 Moss, R. P. and Rathbone, R. J. A. R. (eds.), The Population Factor in African Studies, London, 1975.Google Scholar

2 Crops and Wealth in Uganda (Kampala, 1959), 44.Google Scholar

3 Helleiner, K. F., ‘The vital revolution reconsidere’, in Glass, D. V. and Eversley, D. E. C. (eds.), Population in History: Essays in Historical Demography (London, 1965), 85.Google Scholar

4 Africa, let us repeat, was normal. In the 1690s ‘dearth and starvation stalked through the lands from Castile to Finland and from the Scottish Highlands to the foothills of the Alps’ (Helleiner, ibid. 79).

5 See Braudel, F., Capitalism and Material Life, 1400–1800 (London, 1973), 2–20.Google Scholar

6 In a review of the Cambridge History of Africa, vol. iii, in the English Historical Review (forthcoming).

7 ‘Scarcity and growth in two African societie’, in Moss, and Rathbone, , The Population Factor, 57–70.Google Scholar