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Social History African Environments
Author | : William Beinart,JoAnn McGregor |
Publsiher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105111832221 |
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The explosion of interest in African environmental history has stimulated research and writing on a wide range of issues facing many African nations. This collection represents some of the finest studies to date. The general topics include African environmental ideas and practices; colonial science, the state and African responses; and settlers and Africans' culture and nature. The contributors are Emmanuel Kreike, Karen Middleton, Innocent Pikirayi, Terence Ranger, JoAnn McGregor, Helen Tilley, Grace Garswell, John McCracken, Ingrid Yngstrom, David Bunn, Sandra Swart, Robert J. Gordon, and Jane Carruthers.
The Rise of Conservation in South Africa
Author | : William Beinart |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 451 |
Release | : 2008-05-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199541225 |
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A major contribution to the environmental history of settler societies, William Beinart's innovative study analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa, examining them as a response to the rapid transformation of natural pastures brought about as the Cape became a major exporter of wool.
Landscape Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa
Author | : Toyin Falola,Emily Brownell |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 379 |
Release | : 2013-03-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781136657641 |
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This volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are "environment" and "landscape," and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans as perpetrators of their own land, causing degradation from lack of knowledge and technology. "Landscape" defines the category of knowledge produced by foreigners about Africa, where Africans remain part of the scenery and yield no agency over their surroundings. To flesh out these categories and explore their creation and how they have been deployed to shape colonial and postcolonial discourses on Africa, this volume investigates the "technological pastoral," the points of convergence and conflict between Western notions of pastoral Africa and the introduction of colonial technology, scientific ideas and commodification of land and animals.
African History A Very Short Introduction
Author | : John Parker,Richard (Honorary Professor of History Rathbone, University of Aberystwyth),Richard Rathbone |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 185 |
Release | : 2007-03-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192802484 |
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Intended for those interested in the African continent and the diversity of human history, this work looks at Africa's past and reflects on the changing ways it has been imagined and represented. It illustrates key themes in modern thinking about Africa's history with a range of historical examples.
African History Environmental History and Race Relations
Author | : William Beinart |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 32 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : UOM:39015043710915 |
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In his lecture, Beinart observes that, to those who established the Rhodes Chair of Race Relations, and to subsequent electors, race relations has meant the impact of European civilisations on non-European peoples and territories in Africa.
Environment Power and Injustice
Author | : Nancy J. Jacobs |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 326 |
Release | : 2003-06-26 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 0521010705 |
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Environmental Change and African Societies
Author | : Julia Tischler,Ingo Haltermann |
Publsiher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2019-10-07 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9789004410848 |
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The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, “Ideas”, enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed by contributions on historical cases of environmental change and state regulation. The section “Present” addresses decision-making and agenda-setting processes related to current representations and/or predicted effects of climate change. The section “Prospects” is concerned with contemporary African megatrends. The authors move across different scales of investigation, from locally-grounded ethnographic analyses to discussions on continental trends and international policy. Contributors are: Daniel Callo-Concha, Joy Clancy, Manfred Denich, Sara de Wit, Ton Dietz, Irit Eguavoen, Ben Fanstone, Ingo Haltermann, Laura Jeffrey, Emmanuel Kreike, Vimbai Kwashirai, James C. McCann, Bertrand F. Nero, Jonas Ø. Nielsen, Erick G. Tambo, Julia Tischler.
Sub Saharan Africa
Author | : Gregory H. Maddox |
Publsiher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2006-03-24 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9781851095605 |
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A wealth of information and analysis on the environmental forces that have helped shaped the cultures of the African continent. A scholarly reference work that will also appeal to the general reader, Sub-Saharan Africa sets the story of the African environment within the context of geological time and shows how the continent's often harsh conditions prompted humans to develop unique skills in agriculture, animal husbandry, and environmental management. Part of ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies series, this book enables readers to better grasp the extent of humanity's effect on our world. Of particular interest are the book's sections dealing with the impact of the Biafran famine of the 1960s, the Sahelian drought of the 1970s, population growth, and the ongoing challenges of war and HIV/AIDS. Crucially, the book also shows how, despite their relative poverty, many African states have coped admirably with rapid urbanization and have developed world-class conservation and sustainability programs in order to protect and harness some of the most endangered species in the world.