by William Beinart contributions by Joann Mcgregor edited by William Beinart and Joann Mcgregor
Ohio University Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-0-8214-1537-5 | Paper: 978-0-8214-1538-2 Library of Congress Classification GF701.S63 2003 Dewey Decimal Classification 333.7096
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | TOC
ABOUT THIS BOOK
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford.
JoAnn McGregor is lecturer in geography at the University of Reading.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Beinart,
William
McGregor,
Joann
Part I
African Environmental Ideas & Practices
1
Hidden Fruits A Social Ecology of Fruit Trees in Namibia & Angola 1880s–1990s
Kreike,
Emmanuel
2
The Ironies of Plant Transfer The Case of Prickly Pear in Madagascar
Middleton,
Karen
3
Environmental Data & Historical Process Historical Climatic Reconstruction & the Mutapa State 1450–1862
Pikirayi,
Innocent
4
Women & Environment in African Religion The Case of Zimbabwe
Ranger,
Terence
5
Living with the River Landscape & Memory in the Zambezi Valley, Northwest Zimbabwe
McGregor,
Joann
Part II
Colonial Science, the State & African Responses
6
African Environments & Environmental Sciences The African Research Survey, Ecological Paradigms & British Colonial Development 1920–1940
Tilley,
Helen
7
Soil conservation Policies in Colonial Kigezi, Uganda Successful Implemention & an Absence of Resistance
Carswell,
Grace
8
Conservation & Resistance in Colonial Malawi The ‘Dead North’ Revisited
McCracken,
John
9
Representations of Custom, Social Identity & Environmental Relations in Central Tanzania 1926–1950
Yngstrom,
Ingrid
Part III
Settlers & Africans; Culture & Nature
10
An Unnatural State Tourism, Water & Wildlife Photography in the Early Kruger National Park
Bunn,
David
11
The Ant of the White Soul Popular Natural History, the Politics of Afrikaner Identity, & the Entomological Writings of Eugène Marais
Swart,
Sandra
12
Fido Dog Tales of Colonialism in Namibia
Gordon,
Robert J.
13
Past & Future Landscape Ideology The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park
by William Beinart contributions by Joann Mcgregor edited by William Beinart and Joann Mcgregor
Ohio University Press, 2003 Cloth: 978-0-8214-1537-5 Paper: 978-0-8214-1538-2
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.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations at the University of Oxford.
JoAnn McGregor is lecturer in geography at the University of Reading.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Introduction
Beinart,
William
McGregor,
Joann
Part I
African Environmental Ideas & Practices
1
Hidden Fruits A Social Ecology of Fruit Trees in Namibia & Angola 1880s–1990s
Kreike,
Emmanuel
2
The Ironies of Plant Transfer The Case of Prickly Pear in Madagascar
Middleton,
Karen
3
Environmental Data & Historical Process Historical Climatic Reconstruction & the Mutapa State 1450–1862
Pikirayi,
Innocent
4
Women & Environment in African Religion The Case of Zimbabwe
Ranger,
Terence
5
Living with the River Landscape & Memory in the Zambezi Valley, Northwest Zimbabwe
McGregor,
Joann
Part II
Colonial Science, the State & African Responses
6
African Environments & Environmental Sciences The African Research Survey, Ecological Paradigms & British Colonial Development 1920–1940
Tilley,
Helen
7
Soil conservation Policies in Colonial Kigezi, Uganda Successful Implemention & an Absence of Resistance
Carswell,
Grace
8
Conservation & Resistance in Colonial Malawi The ‘Dead North’ Revisited
McCracken,
John
9
Representations of Custom, Social Identity & Environmental Relations in Central Tanzania 1926–1950
Yngstrom,
Ingrid
Part III
Settlers & Africans; Culture & Nature
10
An Unnatural State Tourism, Water & Wildlife Photography in the Early Kruger National Park
Bunn,
David
11
The Ant of the White Soul Popular Natural History, the Politics of Afrikaner Identity, & the Entomological Writings of Eugène Marais
Swart,
Sandra
12
Fido Dog Tales of Colonialism in Namibia
Gordon,
Robert J.
13
Past & Future Landscape Ideology The Kalahari Gemsbok National Park