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Cultivating Refuge: A Long History of Dealing with Disaster in North-Central Uganda, 1720-2006

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Historians have long argued that humanitarianism—what Thomas Haskell once described as “alleviating the suffering of distant strangers”—first emerged in eighteenth-century Europe as part of a complex set of perceptual changes involving capitalist growth, Enlightenment ideas, and Christian values. Given these claims, it is no coincidence that humanitarianism has often been...

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humanitarianism, refuge, Acholi, Africa, Uganda, and aid

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African history

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Edwards, Mitchell

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

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en

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08/23/2023

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2023-01-01

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Dissertation

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etdadmin_upload_1012977 and http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:16733
Distributed Power: Climate Change, Elderhood, and Republicanism in the Grasslands of East Africa, c. 500 BCE to 1800 CE

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This dissertation examines the longue durée political history of Ateker-speaking agro-pastoralists in the semi-arid plains of today’s Uganda – Kenya – Ethiopia – South Sudan borderlands. Today’s Ateker-speaking communities include the Karimojong, Teso, Turkana, Toposa, Dodos, Jie, Nyangatom, and Jiye. Over the past millennium, Ateker-speaking communities developed a diversity of...

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Ateker, Teso, Historical Linguistics, Karimojong, Turkana, and Uganda

Subject:

African history, Sub Saharan Africa studies, and Linguistics

Creator:

Fitzsimons, William

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Scholarly Digital Publishing

Language:

en

Date Uploaded:

02/01/2021

Date Created:

2020-01-01

Resource Type:

Dissertation

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http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15257 and etdadmin_upload_764137

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