Natures of colonial change
Subtitle: environmental relations in the making of the Transkei
By: Jacob A. Tropp
Series: New African histories series
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Athens
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780821416983; 9780821416990
Subjects: Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- South Africa -- Transkei -- History; Indigenous peoples -- South Africa -- Transkei -- Social conditions; Forest ecology -- South Africa -- Transkei; Landscape changes -- South Africa -- Transkei; Europe -- Colonies -- Africa; Transkei (South Africa) -- Colonization; Transkei (South Africa) -- Environmental conditions
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-261) and index
Table of contents: title: Tensions in the colonial restructuring of local environmental authority, 1880-c. 1915; title: Environmental entitlements in the new colonial order, 1888-c. 1905; title: Shifting terrains of wood access in the early twentieth century, 1903-1930s; title: Remapping historical landscapes : forest species and the contours of social and cultural life; title: The python and the crying tree : commentaries on the nature of colonial and environmental power