Re-creating Eden
Subtitle: land use, environment, and society in southern Angola and northern Namibia
By: Emmanuel Kreike.
Series: Social history of Africa,
Publisher: Heinemann
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Portsmouth, NH
Language: eng
Number of pages: 293
Subjects: Land tenure -- Environmental aspects -- Angola; Land tenure -- Environmental aspects -- Namibia; Land use, Rural -- Environmental aspects -- Angola; Land use, Rural -- Environmental aspects -- Namibia; Human settlements -- Angola -- History; Human settlements -- Namibia -- History; Conservation of natural resources -- Angola -- History; Conservation of natural resources -- Namibia -- History; Sustainable development -- Angola -- History; Sustainable development -- Namibia -- History; Angola -- Social conditions -- History; Namibia -- Social conditions -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-285) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : colonial conquest, colonial rule, and socioenvironmental history; title: King Haudanu's ponds : environment and society in the middle and northern floodplain, 1879-1896; title: Making wilderness : pestilence, colonial conquest, and famine, 1897-1915; title: The divide : colonial pacification, borders, and population flight, 1916-1930; title: Migrant labor : investment in socioenvironmental recovery, 1900-1960; title: Millet and marriage : domesticating the middle floodplain wilderness, 1930-1960; title: A land without flies : the frontier beyond the floodplain, 1930-1960; title: The search for wilderness : cattleposts, cattle trails, and the colonial border; title: 1930-1960.