Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa
By: edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell
Series: Routledge African studies -- 6; Routledge African studies -- 6.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780415895934
Subjects: Technology; Land use; Economic development; Environmental policy; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Landscapes, environments and technology : looking out, looking back / Emily Brownell and Toyin Falola; title: Chimpanzees in the colonial maelstrom : struggles over knowledge, race, and commodities in the Gabonese primate trade, c. 1850-1940 / Jeremy Rich; title: Appraising nature : pastoralist practice, hunting logics, and landscape ideology in colonial Southern Africa / Laura J. Mitchell; title: The railway in colonial East Africa : colonial iconography and African appropriation of a new technology / Christiane Reichart; title: Science, technology and the African woman during (British) colonization, 1916-1960 : the case of Bamenda Province / Bridget A. Teboh; title: Western biomedicine and colonialism : the Church Missionary Society medical mission in the Lake Victoria Basin / Hannington Ochwada; title: The price of "modernity"? : Western railroad technology and the 1918 influenza pandemic in Nigeria / Tokunbo A. Ayoola; title: Labor costs and the failed support of progressive farmers in colonial Malawi / Erik Green; title: Cattle in British Southern Cameroons : innovations in grazing and environmental control 1916-1960 / Emmanuel M. Mbah; title: The role of indigenous knowledge in environmental conservation in Africa : the case of the Abaluyia of western Kenya / Maurice Amutabi; title: Managerial technologies, [il]legal livelihoods and the forgotten consumers of Africa's largest freshwater fishery / Jennifer Lee Johnson; title: Fictionalizing the crisis of the environment in Ben Okri's The famished road and Songs of enchantment / Kayode O. Ogunfolabi; title: Health transitions and environmental change in contemporary Africa / Kathryn H. Jacobsen; title: Growing a global green economy : getting Africa prepared to lend a hand / Rubin Patterson; title: Conclusion : environmental crisis and development / Emily Brownell.