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Social history & African environments / edited by William Beinart & JoAnn McGregor.
Penn Museum Library GF701 .S63 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Ohio University Press ecology and history series.
- The Ohio University Press ecology and history series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human ecology--Africa--History.
- Human ecology.
- Environmental policy--Africa--History.
- Environmental policy.
- History.
- Africa--Environmental aspects--History.
- Africa.
- Africa--Social conditions.
- Social conditions.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 275 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Other Title:
- Social history and African environments
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : James Currey ; Athens : Ohio Univesity Press ; Cape Town : D. Philip, 2003.
- Contents:
- Part I African Environmental Ideas & Practices 25
- 1 Hidden Fruits: A Social Ecology of Fruit Trees in Namibia & Angola 1880s-1990s / Emmanuel Kreike 27
- 2 The Ironies of Plant Transfer: The Case of Prickly Pear in Madagascar / Karen Middleton 43
- 3 Environmental Data & Historical Process: Historical Climatic Reconstruction & the Mutapa State 1450-1862 / Innocent Pikirayi 60
- 4 Women & Environment in African Religion: The Case of Zimbabwe / Terence Ranger 72
- 5 Living with the River: Landscape & Memory in the Zambezi Valley, Northwest Zimbabwe / JoAnn McGregor 87
- Part II Colonial Science, the State & African Responses 107
- 6 African Environments & Environmental Sciences: The African Research Survey, Ecological Paradigms & British Colonial Development 1920-1940 / Helen Tilley 109
- 7 Soil Conservation Policies in Colonial Kigezi, Uganda: Successful Implementation & an Absence of Resistance / Grace Carswell 131
- 8 Conservation & Resistance in Colonial Malawi: The 'Dead North' Revisited / John McCracken 155
- 9 Representations of Custom, Social Identity & Environmental Relations in Central Tanzania 1926-1950 / Ingrid Yngstrom 175
- Part III Settlers & Africans; Culture & Nature 197
- 10 An Unnatural State: Tourism, Water & Wildlife Photography in the Early Kruger National Park / David Bunn 199
- 11 The Ant of the White Soul: Popular Natural History, the Politics of Afrikaner Identity, & the Entomological Writings of Eugene Marais / Sandra Swart 219
- 12 Fido: Dog Tales of Colonialism in Namibia / Robert J. Gordon 240
- 13 Past & Future Landscape Ideology: The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park / Jane Carruthers 255.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0852559518
- 085255950X
- 0821415379
- 0821415387
- OCLC:
- 51993269
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