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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
Contributor:
Beinart, William.
McGregor, JoAnn.
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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