Re-creating Eden land use, environment, and society in Southern Angola and Northern Namibia.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publisher: Portsmouth Heinemann 2004Description: X, 293 p. illContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0-325-07076-8
  • 0-325-07077-6
Other title:
  • Recreating Eden land use, environment, and society in Southern Angola and Northern Namibia
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Contents:
Introduction : colonial conquest, colonial rule, and socioenvironmental history -- King Haudanu's ponds : environment and society in the middle and northern floodplain, 1879-1896 -- Making wilderness : pestilence, colonial conquest, and famine, 1897-1915 -- The divide : colonial pacification, borders, and population flight, 1916-1930 -- Migrant labor : investment in socioenvironmental recovery, 1900-1960 -- Millet and marriage : domesticating the middle floodplain wilderness, 1930-1960 -- A land without flies : the frontier beyond the floodplain, 1930-1960 -- The search for wilderness : cattleposts, cattle trails, and the colonial border -- 1930-1960.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : colonial conquest, colonial rule, and socioenvironmental history -- King Haudanu's ponds : environment and society in the middle and northern floodplain, 1879-1896 -- Making wilderness : pestilence, colonial conquest, and famine, 1897-1915 -- The divide : colonial pacification, borders, and population flight, 1916-1930 -- Migrant labor : investment in socioenvironmental recovery, 1900-1960 -- Millet and marriage : domesticating the middle floodplain wilderness, 1930-1960 -- A land without flies : the frontier beyond the floodplain, 1930-1960 -- The search for wilderness : cattleposts, cattle trails, and the colonial border -- 1930-1960.