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Author Tropp, Jacob Abram

Title Natures of colonial change : environmental relations in the making of the Transkei / Jacob A. Tropp
Published Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2006

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 268 pages) : illustrations
Series New African histories series
New African histories series.
Contents 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-261) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Ethnoecology -- South Africa -- Transkei -- History
Indigenous peoples -- South Africa -- Transkei -- Social conditions
Forest ecology -- South Africa -- Transkei
Landscape changes -- South Africa -- Transkei
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
HISTORY -- General.
Colonization
Ecology
Forest ecology
Ethnoecology
Indigenous peoples -- Social conditions
Landscape changes
Kolonialismus
Umweltschutz
Indigenes Volk
Soziale Situation
Ökologie
Landschaftsentwicklung
Forstwirtschaft
SUBJECT Europe -- Colonies -- Africa
Transkei (South Africa) -- Colonization
Transkei (South Africa) -- Environmental conditions
Subject Africa
South Africa -- Transkei
Transkei
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780821442272
0821442279