Tensions in the colonial restructuring of local environmental authority, 1880-c. 1915 -- Environmental entitlements in the new colonial order, 1888-c. 1905 -- Shifting terrains of wood access in the early twentieth century, 1903-1930s -- Remapping historical landscapes : forest species and the contours of social and cultural life -- The python and the crying tree : commentaries on the nature of colonial and environmental power
Summary
In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context-the Transkei-subsequently the largest of the notorious "homelands" under apartheid. In the late nineteenth century, South Africa's Cape Colony completed its incorporation of the area beyond the Kei River, known as the Transkei, and began transforming the region into a labor reserve. It simultaneously restructured popular access to local forests, reserving those resources for the benefit of the white
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index