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Land and society in the Christian kingdom of Ethiopia : from the thirteenth to the twentieth century

An extended history of Ethiopia to focus on the system of taxation and tribute, called gult. By making imaginative use of previously overlooked records, flyleaves of Ethiopian manuscripts, the author provides insight into how ordinary farming and herding folk were incorporated into and affected by the institutions that ruled them.
Print Book, English, 2000
Univ. of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2000