Plunder for profit : a socio-environmental history of tobacco farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe / Elijah Doro, University of Stellenbosch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Doro, Elijah, author.

Series:

African studies series ; 162.

African studies series ; 162

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tobacco industry--Zimbabwe.

Tobacco industry.

Tobacco farms--Zimbabwe.

Tobacco farms.

Zimbabwe.

Physical Description:

xvi, 308 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Summary:

"Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines how tobacco became an institutionalised culture of production, which was linked to state power and natural ecosystems, and driven by a pernicious heritage of unbridled plunder. With the destruction of landscapes, the negative impacts of the export trade and the growing tobacco epidemic in Zimbabwe, tobacco farming has a long and varied legacy in southern African and across the world. Connecting the local to the global, and the environmental to the social, this book illuminates our understandings of environmental history, colonialism and sustainability."-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-303) and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Doro, Elijah. Plunder for profit

ISBN:

9781009098397

100909839X

9781009096256

1009096257

OCLC:

1346615402