William Beinart

The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950

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Produktbeschreibung

A major contribution to the environmental history of settler societies, William Beinart's innovative study analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa, examining them as a response to the rapid transformation of natural pastures brought about as the Cape became a major exporter of wool.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sydney University Press
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780199541225
• ISBN-10: 0199541221
• Artikelnr.: 24765798

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