Social history & African environments / edited by William Beinart & JoAnn McGregor.

Social history and African environments

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

xii, 275 pages : black and white illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Published in collaboration with the Ohio University Press ecology and history series.

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.

Includes bibliographical references and index.