عنوان

Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa /

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0415895936

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9780415895934

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Title Proper

Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa /

General Material Designation

[Book]

First Statement of Responsibility

edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell

Date

1108

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

xi, 342 pages ;

Dimensions

24 cm

Series Title

Routledge African studies ;

Volume Designation

6

Text of Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Text of Note

Introduction : Landscapes, environments and technology : looking out, looking back / Emily Brownell and Toyin Falola -- Chimpanzees in the colonial maelstrom : struggles over knowledge, race, and commodities in the Gabonese primate trade, c. 1850-1940 / Jeremy Rich -- Appraising nature : pastoralist practice, hunting logics, and landscape ideology in colonial Southern Africa / Laura J. Mitchell -- The railway in colonial East Africa : colonial iconography and African appropriation of a new technology / Christiane Reichart -- Science, technology and the African woman during (British) colonization, 1916-1960 : the case of Bamenda Province / Bridget A. Teboh -- Western biomedicine and colonialism : the Church Missionary Society medical mission in the Lake Victoria Basin / Hannington Ochwada -- The price of "modernity"? : Western railroad technology and the 1918 influenza pandemic in Nigeria / Tokunbo A. Ayoola -- Labor costs and the failed support of progressive farmers in colonial Malawi / Erik Green -- Cattle in British Southern Cameroons : innovations in grazing and environmental control 1916-1960 / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- The role of indigenous knowledge in environmental conservation in Africa : the case of the Abaluyia of western Kenya / Maurice Amutabi -- Managerial technologies, [il]legal livelihoods and the forgotten consumers of Africa's largest freshwater fishery / Jennifer Lee Johnson -- Fictionalizing the crisis of the environment in Ben Okri's The famished road and Songs of enchantment / Kayode O. Ogunfolabi -- Health transitions and environmental change in contemporary Africa / Kathryn H. Jacobsen -- Growing a global green economy : getting Africa prepared to lend a hand / Rubin Patterson -- Conclusion : environmental crisis and development / Emily Brownell

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Economic development-- Environmental aspects-- Africa-- History

Environmental policy-- Africa-- History

Land use-- Environmental aspects-- Africa-- History

Technology-- Environmental aspects-- Africa-- History

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Book number

Brownell, Emily

Falola, Toyin

Date of Transaction

20141128142038.0

Electronic name

[Book]

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