Social History and African Environments
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African environment
African history
Author_JoAnn McGregor
Category=GTM
Category=NHH
Category=NHTB
Category=RN
colonial Africa
colonialism
conservation
environmental history
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landscape
nature
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- ISBN 9780852559505
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 01 Jun 2003
- Publisher: James Currey
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Brings together essays on relations between the environmental ideas and practices of Africans, colonial officials, settlers and scientists, challenging some of the interpretive conventions of Africanist scholarship.
The recent explosion of interest in African environmental history has resulted in a rich new literature. This collection focuses on the social and cultural dimensions of the field, revealing the importance of standing back from today's controversies over the state of the African environment, to explore the historical contexts in which knowledge and ideas about nature, conservation and landscape were formed.
North America: Ohio U Press
William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford; JoAnn McGregor is Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Reading
