Nancy J. Jacobs is Assistant Professor in the Department of African Studies and the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is a recipient of the Alice Hamilton article prize from the American Society for Environmental History.
Preface
1. Approaching Kuruman
2. Goat people and fish people on the agro-pastoral frontier, c. 1750-1830
3. Intensification and social innovation on the cape frontier: 1820s-1885
4. Colonial annexation: land alienation and environmental administration
5. Environmental trauma, colonial rule and the failure of extensive food production, 1895-1903
6. The environmental history of a 'labor reservoir', 1903-1970s
7. Apportioning water, dividing land: segregation, 1910-1977
8. Betterment and the Bophuthatswana donkey massacre: the environmental rights of tribal subjects
9. Retrospectives on socio-environmental history and socio-environmental justice
Appendices.
