The Political economy of rural-urban conflict : predation, production, and peripheries / Topher L. McDougal.
Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.Description: xiv, 215p. : illustrations, map ; 24cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780198792598
- 355.0218 MAC 22
- HB195 .M35 2017
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book argues that trade networks underpinning the economic relationship between rural and urban areas - termed 'interstitial economies' - may differ dramatically in their impact on (and response to) the combat frontier. It explains rebel predatory tendencies towards cities as a function of transport networks allowing monopoly profits to be made by urban-based traders. It explains combat frontier delineation as a function of the social structure of the trade networks: hierarchical networks permit elite-elite bargains that cohere the frontier. These factors represent what might be termed respectively the 'hardware' and 'software' of the rural-urban economic relationship.
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