Modes of production in Africa :  the precolonial era / 
Donald Crummey and C.C. Stewart, editors. 
 - Beverly Hills :  Sage Publications,  c1981. 
 - 256 p. :  maps ;  23 cm. 
 - Sage series on African modernization and development ;  v. 5 .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>The poverty of precolonial African historiography / Donald Crummey and C.C. Stewart -- In search of the monarch : introduction of the state among the Gamo of Ethiopia / Marc Abeles -- Emergent  classes and the early state : the Southern Sahara / C.C. Steward -- Lineage mode of production : social inequalities in Equatorial Central Africa / Bogumil Jewsiewicki -- Herders and farmers : the tributary mode of production in Western Uganda / Edward I. Steinhart -- The slave mode of production : precolonial Dahomey / Roberta Walker Kilkenny -- Fishing for the state : the political economy of the Middle Niger Valley / Richard Roberts -- Production, penetration, and political formation : the Bida State, 1857-1901 / Michael Mason -- State and society : 19th century Ethiopia /Donald Crummey. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0803911335 0803911343 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Africa--Economic conditions--To 1918--Congresses.<br/>Africa--Politics and government--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>338.096  / CRM 1981