Edited by Stephen Dovers, Ruth Edgecombe, and Bill Guest
"A worthwhile and rewarding read for anyone interested in environmental history, and not only that of South Africa."
International Journal of African Historical Studies
Environmental history in southern Africa has only recently come into its own as a distinct field of historical inquiry. While natural resources lie at the heart of all environmental history, the field opens the door to a wide range of inquiries, several of which are pioneered in this collection.
South Africa’s Environmental History offers a series of local and particular studies followed by more general commentary and comparative studies.
The contributors include Sean Archer, William Beinart, Jane Carruthers, Beverley Ellis, Bill Guest, Nancy Jacobs, Elna Kotze, John Lambert, Gregory H. Maddox, John McAllister, John McNeill, S. Ravi Rajan, Jabulani Sithole, Georgina Thompson, Lance van Sittert, and Harald Witt.
Stephen Dovers is a senior fellow at the Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at the Australian National University in Canberra. More info →
Ruth Edgecombe was a professor of historical studies at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. More info →
Bill Guest has recently retired as professor of historical studies at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. More info →
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In the Heart of the Hausa States
By Paul Staudinger
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Translation by Johanna E. Moody
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Foreword by Paul E. Lovejoy
Consequent upon the Berlin West Africa Conference (1884–1885), the Africanische Gesellschaft in Deutschland launched the Niger-Benue expedition to investigate possible riverine communications throughout the Niger-Benue river system. Responsibility for the expedition ultimately fell to Paul Staudinger, a young entomologist with no experience of inner Africa.This
Anthropology · African History · Western Africa · African Studies
The Migrant Farmer in the History of Cape Colony, 1657–1842
By P. J. van der Merwe
Petrus Johannes Van der Merwe wrote three of the most significant books on the history of South Africa before he was 35 years old. His trilogy, of which The Migrant Farmer is the first volume, has become a classic that no student of Cape colonial history of the seventeenth, eighteenth or nineteenth century can ignore.
African Studies · Southern Africa · South Africa · 19th century · 18th century · 17th century · History · African History · Food Studies · Africa
Social History and African Environments
Edited by William Beinart and JoAnn McGregor
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.
Environmental History · African History · Colonialism and Decolonization · African Studies · Africa
Environment at the Margins
Literary and Environmental Studies in Africa
Edited by Byron Caminero-Santangelo and Garth Myers
Environment at the Margins brings literary and environmental studies into a robust interdisciplinary dialogue, challenging dominant ideas about nature, conservation, and development in Africa and exploring alternative narratives offered by writers and environmental thinkers. The essays bring together scholarship in geography, anthropology, and environmental history with the study of African and colonial literatures and with literary modes of analysis.
Environmental History · Literary Criticism, Africa · African Studies · Environmental Studies
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