Re-creating Eden
Re-creating Eden: land use, environment, and society in southern Angola and northern Namibia Emmanuel Kreike
Publisher: Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2004.
ISBN: 0325070768
LCC: HD1000
Edition: (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-285) and index.
1. Introduction: colonial conquest, colonial rule, and
socioenvironmental history -- 2. King Haudanu's ponds: environment
and society in the middle and northern floodplain, 1879-1896 -- 3.
Making wilderness: pestilence, colonial conquest, and famine,
1897-1915 -- 4. The divide: colonial pacification, borders, and
population flight, 1916-1930 -- 5. Migrant labor: investing in
socioenvironmental recovery, 1900-1960 -- 6. Millet and marriage:
domesticating the middle floodplain wilderness, 1930-1960 -- 7. A
land without flies: the frontier beyond the floodplain, 1930-1960 --
8. The search for wilderness: cattle posts, cattle trails, and the
colonial border, 1930-1960 -- 9. Conclusion.
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