Format:
1 online resource (213 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780821442272
Series Statement:
New African Histories
Content:
In this groundbreaking study, Jacob A. Tropp explores the interconnections between negotiations over the environment and an emerging colonial relationship in a particular South African context-the Transkei-subsequently the largest of the notorious "homelands" under apartheid. In the late nineteenth century, South Africa's Cape Colony completed its incorporation of the area beyond the Kei River, known as the Transkei, and began transforming the region into a labor reserve. It simultaneously restructured popular access to local forests, reserving those resources for the benefit of the white settler economy. This placed new constraints on local Africans in accessing resources for agriculture, livestock management, hunting, building materials, fuel, medicine, and ritual practices. Drawing from a diverse array of oral and written sources, Tropp reveals how bargaining over resources-between and among colonial officials, chiefs and headmen, and local African men and women-was interwoven with major changes in local political authority, gendered economic relations, and cultural practices as well as with intense struggles over the very meaning and scope of colonial rule itself. Natures of Colonial Change sheds new light on the colonial era in the Transkei by looking at significant yet neglected dimensions of this history: how both "colonizing" and "colonized" groups negotiated environmental access and how such negotiations helped shape the broader making and meaning of life in the new colonial order.
Content:
Intro -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Abbrevations -- Introduction -- PART I -- Chapter 1. Tensions in the Colonial Restructuring of Local Environmental Authority, 1880-c. 1915 -- Chapter 2. Environmental Entitlements in the New Colonial Order, 1888-c. 1905 -- Chapter 3. Shifting Terrains of Wood Access in the Early Twentieth Century, 1903-1930s -- PART II -- Chapter 4. Remapping Historical Landscapes Forest Species and the Contours of Social and Cultural Life -- Chapter 5. The Python and the Crying Tree Commentaries on the Nature of Colonial and Environmental Power -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821416990
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Tropp, Jacob Abram Natures of colonial change Athens, Ohio : Ohio Univ. Press, 2006 ISBN 0821416995
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0821416987
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821416990
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821416983
Language:
English
Subjects:
Political Science
Keywords:
Transkei
;
Umweltschutz
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte 1880-1930
;
Südafrika
;
Transkei
;
Ökologie
;
Kolonialismus
;
Soziale Situation
;
Indigenes Volk
;
Geschichte 1880-1930
;
Transkei
;
Forstwirtschaft
;
Landschaftsentwicklung
;
Ökologie
;
Geschichte 1880-1930
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