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Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge African studies ; 6.
- Routledge African studies ; 6
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental policy--Africa--History.
- Environmental policy.
- Land use--Environmental aspects--Africa--History.
- Land use.
- Technology--Environmental aspects--Africa--History.
- Technology.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects--Africa--History.
- Economic development.
- Economic development--Environmental aspects.
- History.
- Technology--Environmental aspects.
- Land use--Environmental aspects.
- Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2012.
- Contents:
- Introduction : Landscapes, environments and technology : looking out, looking back / Emily Brownell and Toyin Falola
- Chimpanzees in the colonial maelstrom : struggles over knowledge, race, and commodities in the Gabonese primate trade, c. 1850-1940 / Jeremy Rich
- Appraising nature : pastoralist practice, hunting logics, and landscape ideology in colonial Southern Africa / Laura J. Mitchell
- The railway in colonial East Africa : colonial iconography and African appropriation of a new technology / Christiane Reichart
- Science, technology and the African woman during (British) colonization, 1916-1960 : the case of Bamenda Province / Bridget A. Teboh
- Western biomedicine and colonialism : the Church Missionary Society medical mission in the Lake Victoria Basin / Hannington Ochwada
- The price of "modernity"? : Western railroad technology and the 1918 influenza pandemic in Nigeria / Tokunbo A. Ayoola
- Labor costs and the failed support of progressive farmers in colonial Malawi / Erik Green
- Cattle in British Southern Cameroons : innovations in grazing and environmental control 1916-1960 / Emmanuel M. Mbah
- The role of indigenous knowledge in environmental conservation in Africa : the case of the Abaluyia of western Kenya / Maurice Amutabi
- Managerial technologies, [il]legal livelihoods and the forgotten consumers of Africa's largest freshwater fishery / Jennifer Lee Johnson
- Fictionalizing the crisis of the environment in Ben Okri's The famished road and Songs of enchantment / Kayode O. Ogunfolabi
- Health transitions and environmental change in contemporary Africa / Kathryn H. Jacobsen
- Growing a global green economy : getting Africa prepared to lend a hand / Rubin Patterson
- Conclusion : environmental crisis and development / Emily Brownell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415895934
- 0415895936
- OCLC:
- 768969767
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