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020 $a0864864922 (David Philip)
020 $a0821414984 (Ohio University Press)
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050 00 $aGF758$b.S68 2003
245 00 $aSouth Africa's environmental history :$bcases & comparisons /$cedited by Stephen Dovers, Ruth Edgecombe, Bill Guest.
260 $aCape Town :$bDavid Philip ;$aAthens, Ohio :$bOhio University Press,$c2002.
300 $aix, 326 p. :$bill., maps ;$c24 cm.
500 $aIncludes bibliographical references index.
505 0 $aEnvironmental history in southern Africa: an overview / Jane Carruthers -- Essays in South African environmental history -- The colonial ecological revolution in South Africa: the case of Kuruman / Nancy Jacobs -- White settler impact on the environment of Durban, 1845-1870 / Beverley Ellis -- The titihoya does not cry here any more: The crisis in the homestead economy in colonial Natal / John Lambert -- I can see my umuzi where I now am ... I had fields over there but now I have none: An ecological context for Izimpi Zemibango in the Pinetown district in South Africa, 1920-1936 / Jabulani Sithole -- Environmental origins of the Pondoland revolt / William Beinart -- The emergence of privately grown industrial tree plantations / Harald Witt -- Technology and ecology in the Karoo: a century of windmills, wire and changing farming practice / Sean Archer -- Our irrepressible fellow colonist: The biological invasion of Prickly Pear (Opuntia ficus-indica) in the Eastern Cape, c.1890-c.1910 / Lance van Sittert -- Fire and the South African Grassland Biome / John McAllister -- Wakkerstroom: Grasslands, fire and war: past perspectives, present issues / Elna Kotze -- The dynamics of ecological change in an era of political transformations: an environmental history of the Eastern Shores of Lake St Lucia / Georgina Thompson -- Commentaries and comparisons -- South African environmental history in the African context / William Beinart -- Commonalities and contrasts, pasts and presents: an Australian view / Stephen Dovers -- Environment and history in South America and South Africa / John McNeill -- Degradation narratives and population time bombs: myths and realities about African environments / Gregory Maddox -- The colonial eco-drama: resonant themes in the environmental history of southern Africa and South Asia / Ravi Rajan.
650 0 $aHuman beings$xEffect of environment on$zSouth Africa.
650 0 $aEnvironmental impact analysis$zSouth Africa.
650 0 $aHuman ecology$zSouth Africa$xHistory.
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