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Book Changing Patterns of African Land Use in Southern Rhodesia

Download or read book Changing Patterns of African Land Use in Southern Rhodesia written by Barry Floyd and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Struggle for the Land

    Book Details:
  • Author : Paul A. Olson
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1990-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803235557
  • Pages : 340 pages

Download or read book The Struggle for the Land written by Paul A. Olson and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an 1887 council when his people were told to learn farming in the semidesert region east of the Wind River Mountains, the Shosone chief Washakie exploded with "God damn a potato!" His instincts were all against the cultivation of semiarid land. The relationship between the buffalo hunter and the potato eater?between indigenous peoples and industrial empire?is the basic theme of the studies in The Struggle for the Land. As the editor, Paul A. Olson, points out in his introduction, the theme is as old as the biblical battle between the descendents of Nimrod, the city dweller, and of Abraham, the pastoralist. But the environmental cost of developing the world's semiarid regions is a new and urgent concern. Soil erosion, the loss of lands to dams, the pollution of once productive regions through mining, and the destruction of native food plants have everywhere decreased the quality of life for indigenous peoples, who have been forced to adopt the Western agricultural practices, property concepts, and economic institutions that created the environmental crisis. The eleven chapters in this collection look at the industrial and indigenous relationships in the lands of the North American Plains Indians, the Australian Aborigines, the Kazakhs in the USSR, the Maasai in Kenya, and several groups in southern Africa, and Alaskan and Lapp (Saami) native peoples. Representing a broad range of disciplines, including anthropology, history, ecology, and agricultural science, the contributors are John W. Bennett, Anatoly Khazanov, Russel L. Barsh, Gary C. Anders, Robson Silitshena, Peter Iverson, Patrick Morris, Annette Hamilton, J. Baird Callicott, O. Douglas Schwarz, and Solomon Bekure and Ishmael Ole Pasha. They recommend realistic solutions for the problems facing people who have essentially been disenfranchised by Western-style developmentof their native semiarid lands.

Book Unpublished Research on Africa  Completed and in Progress

Download or read book Unpublished Research on Africa Completed and in Progress written by United States Department of State. External Research Division and published by . This book was released on with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning in 1954, Apr. issue lists studies in progress, Oct. issue, completed studies.

Book External Research

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  • Author : United States. Department of State. External Research Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1961
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 24 pages

Download or read book External Research written by United States. Department of State. External Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa

Download or read book Transforming Settlement in Southern Africa written by de Wet Chris de Wet and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the ways in which changing political and economic processes impact upon patterns of population movement and settlement. It focuses on the southern African region as it has moved from the experiments of the early independence era, through civil war and refugee flight, into the current era characterised by globalization and the demise of apartheid. Focused case studies from across the region deal with specific aspects of these transformations and their policy implications.

Book Urban and Regional Change in Southern Africa

Download or read book Urban and Regional Change in Southern Africa written by David W. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-09-26 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Book African Farmers in Rhodesia

Download or read book African Farmers in Rhodesia written by A K H Weinrich and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-03 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1975 this book analyses the factors making for success and failure in agricultural development among black Zimbabweans during the 20th century. A detailed analysis is given of 2 tribal trust lands, including government policies and administrative control of these areas, voluntary and forced adjustment to land shortage and the economic resources and productivity of peasant cultivators. Settlements under individual land tenure are examined, as are government policies to these, the internal transofrmation of these communities and their economic resources and productivity. There is also a section on irrigation schemes and the reaction of people to irrigation farming. This is an indispensable book in understanding the present-day situation of agriculture in Zimbabwe.

Book Science and society in southern Africa

Download or read book Science and society in southern Africa written by Saul Dubow and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection, dealing with case studies drawn from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and Mauritius, examines the relationship between scientific claims and practices, and the exercise of colonial power. It challenges conventional views that portray science as a detached mode of reasoning with the capacity to confer benefits in a more or less even-handed manner. That science has the potential to further the collective good is not fundamentally at issue, but science can also be seen as complicit in processes of colonial domination. Not only did science assist in bolstering aspects of colonial power and exploitation, it also possessed a significant ideological component: it offered a means of legitimating colonial authority by counter-poising Western rationality to native superstition and it served to enhance the self-image of colonial or settler elites in important respects. This innovative volume ranges broadly through topics such as statistics, medicine, eugenics, agriculture, entomology and botany.

Book External Research List

Download or read book External Research List written by and published by . This book was released on 1957 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transforming Southern African Agriculture

Download or read book Transforming Southern African Agriculture written by Ann Willcox Seidman and published by Africa World Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bibliography of Soils of the Tropics  Tropics in general and Africa

Download or read book Bibliography of Soils of the Tropics Tropics in general and Africa written by Arnold Clifford Orvedal and published by . This book was released on 1975 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia

Download or read book Land and Racial Domination in Rhodesia written by Robin Palmer and published by Heinemann Educational Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robert Thorne Coryndon

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  • Author : Christopher P. Youé
  • Publisher : Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press
  • Release : 2006-01-01
  • ISBN : 0889205485
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book Robert Thorne Coryndon written by Christopher P. Youé and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Thorne Coryndon, born in South Africa in 1870, served twenty-eight years as the top-ranking administrator of African dependencies, a career unmatched by any other British colonial governor. “Governors were expected, through a combination of good sense and good character, to exercise rule over dependent peoples in an honest and impartial manner—an amalgam of liberal values and autocratic methods which lent a certain ambiguity to British imperial rule in Africa and elsewhere.” During his rule in Barotseland (1897–1907) under Cecil Rhodes’ British South Africa Company, Coryndon confronted the problems of establishing a colonial regime; in 1914–1915, during the last seven years of his Swaziland appointment, he served as Chairman of the land commission that delineated the boundaries of African reserves in Southern Rhodesia; as governor of Uganda during a time of rapid economic expansion (1917–1922), he set up legislative and executive councils; and as governor of Kenya (1922–1925) he formed local native councils as an experiment in indigenous administration. This first full-length study of Coryndon is neither a traditional gubernatorial biography of a favoured son of the imperial school nor an ideological history of colonial oppression. Instead Youé sets out to analyze Coryndon’s relationships with African rulers, white settlers, Indian traders, and metropolitan officials in order to assess the impact of his administrations on the territories he governed and to delineate the constraints on proconsular rule.

Book External Research  ER List

    Book Details:
  • Author : United States. Department of State. External Research Division
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1952
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book External Research ER List written by United States. Department of State. External Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Settlement Schemes in Tropical Africa

Download or read book Settlement Schemes in Tropical Africa written by Robert Chambers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1998. This is Volume XIII of eighteen in the Sociology of Development series. Originally published in 1969, this book is a study of organizations and development of two rural development projects by the author whilst working in the Administration in Kenya: a grazing control programme and the Mwea Irrigation Settlement.

Book Rhodes Livingstone Journal

Download or read book Rhodes Livingstone Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Harsh Lands

Download or read book Harsh Lands written by D. Grigg and published by Springer. This book was released on 1970-06-18 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: