Social history & African environments, edited by William Beinart & JoAnn McGregor

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Social history & African environments, edited by William Beinart & JoAnn McGregor

Statement of responsibility

edited by William Beinart & JoAnn McGregor

Instantiates

• Social history & African environments

Publication

• Oxford, James Currey, Athens, Ohio University Press, Cape Town, D. Philip, 2003

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

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volume

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• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

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text

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• txt

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rdacontent

Contents

Part I: African environmental ideas & practices. Hidden fruits : a social ecology of fruit trees in Namibia & Angola, 1880s-1990s / Emmanuel Kreike ; The ironies of plant transfer: the case of prickly pear in Madagascar / Karen Middleton ; Environmental data & historical process : historical climatic reconstruction & the Mutapa state, 1450-1862 / Innocent Pikirayi ; Women & environment in African religion : the case of Zimbabwe / Terence Ranger ; Living with the river : landscape & memory in the Zambezi valley, Northwest Zimbabwe / JoAnn McGregor -- Part II: Colonial science, the state & African responses. African environments & environmental sciences : the African research survey, ecological paradigms & British colonial development, 1920-1940 / Helen Tilley ; Soil conservation policies in colonial Kigezi, Uganda : successful implementation & an absence of resistance / Grace Carswell ; Conservation & resistance in colonial Malawi : the "dead north" revisited / John McCracken ; Representations of custom, social identity & environmental relations in central Tanzania, 1926-1950 / Ingrid Yngstrom -- Part III: Settlers & Africans: culture & nature. An unnatural state : tourism, water & wildlife photography in the early Kruger National Park / David Bunn ; The ant of the white soul : popular natural history, the politics of Afrikaner identity, & the entomological writings of Eugène Marais / Sandra Swart ; Fido : dog tales of colonialism in Namibia / Robert J. Gordon ; Past & future lanscape ideology : the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park / Jane Carruthers

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51993269

Dimensions

24 cm.

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xii, 275 pages

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9780821415382

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2003284153

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unmediated

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rdamedia

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• n

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illustrations, map

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.b12962245x

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(OCoLC)51993269