William Beinart

The Rise of Conservation in South Africa

Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950

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Produktbeschreibung

This is a major and innovative contribution to the environmental history of settler societies and of South Africa. The Cape, like Australia, became a major exporter of wool. Vast numbers of sheep flooded its semi-arid plains and rapidly transformed its fragile natural pastures. This book analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa as a response to these problems.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 452
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Januar 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 164mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 921g
• ISBN-13: 9780199261512
• ISBN-10: 0199261512
• Artikelnr.: 22936528

Autorenporträt

William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

* Preface and Acknowledgements
* Lists of Figures, Illustrations, Tables, and Maps
* Introduction: Livestock Farming and Environmental Regulation at the
Cape
* 1: Scientific Travellers, Colonists, and Africans: Chains of
Knowledge and the Cape Vernacular, 1770-1850
* 2: Defining the Problems: Colonial Science and the Origins of
Conservation at the Cape 1770-1860
* 3: Fire, Vegetation Change, and Pastures 1860-1880
* 4: Vets, Viruses, and Environmentalism in the 1870s and 1880s
* 5: Water, Irrigation, and the State 1880-1930
* 6: The Night of the Jackal: Sheep, Pastures, and Predators 1890-1930
* 7: Drought, Conservation, and Nationalism: the Career of H. S. du
Toit 1900-1940
* 8: Prickly Pear in the Cape: Useful Plants and Invaders in the
Livestock Economy 1890-1950
* 9: 'The Farmer as a Conservationalist': Sidney Rubidge at Wellwood,
Graaff-Reinet 1913-1952
* 10: Debating Conservation in the African Areas of the Cape 1920-1950
* 11: Postscript: Debating Degradation over the Long Term: Animals,
Veld, and Conservation
* Bibliographical Note
* Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources
* Index