Natures of colonial change : environmental relations in the making of the Transkei / Jacob A. Tropp.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tropp, Jacob Abram.

Series:

New African histories series.

New African histories series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indigenous peoples--Ecology--South Africa--Transkei--History.

Indigenous peoples.

Indigenous peoples--South Africa--Transkei--Social conditions.

Forest ecology--South Africa--Transkei.

Forest ecology.

Landscape changes--South Africa--Transkei.

Landscape changes.

Europe--Colonies--Africa.

Europe.

Transkei (South Africa)--Colonization.

Transkei (South Africa).

Transkei (South Africa)--Environmental conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (284 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context-the Transkei-subsequently the largest of the notorious "homelands" under apartheid. In the late nineteenth century, South Africa's Cape Colony completed its incorporation of the area beyond the Kei River, known as the Transkei, and began transforming the region into a labor reserve. It simultaneously restructured popular access to local forests, reserving those resources for the benefit of the white

Contents:

Tensions in the colonial restructuring of local environmental authority, 1880-c. 1915

Environmental entitlements in the new colonial order, 1888-c. 1905

Shifting terrains of wood access in the early twentieth century, 1903-1930s

Remapping historical landscapes : forest species and the contours of social and cultural life

The python and the crying tree : commentaries on the nature of colonial and environmental power.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780821442272

0821442279

OCLC:

889675563