Format:
1 online resource (327 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9780821443965
Series Statement:
Series in Ecology and History
Content:
Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests. Thaddeus Sunseri uses the lens of forest history to explore some of the most profound transformations in Tanzania from the nineteenth century to the present. He explores anticolonial rebellions, the world wars, the depression, the Cold War, oil shocks, and nationalism through their intersections with and impacts on Tanzania's coastal forests and woodlands. In Wielding the Ax, forest history becomes a microcosm of the origins, nature, and demise of colonial rule in East Africa and of the first fitful decades of independence. Wielding the Ax is a story of changing constellations of power over forests, beginning with African chiefs and forest spirits, both known as "ax-wielders," and ending with international conservation experts who wield scientific knowledge as a means to controlling forest access. The modern international concern over tropical deforestation cannot be understood without an awareness of the long-term history of these forest struggles.
Content:
Intro -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: The Ax and the Copal Tree: Forests and Political Consolidation in the Coastal Hinterland, ca. 1820-90 -- Chapter 2: Colonizing the Mangroves of German East Africa, 1890-1914 -- Chapter 3: Insurgency in the Coastal Forests, 1904Ð14 -- Chapter 4: State Forestry in a Colonial Backwater, 1920Ð40 -- Chapter 5: Forestry and Forced Resettlement in Colonial Tanzania, 1920Ð50 -- Chapter 6: Forestry Unbound: Reservation and Resistance from World War II to Independence, 1946-61 -- Chapter 7: Creating Modern Tanzanians: State Forestry from Uhuru through Ujamaa, 1961-80 -- Chapter 8: Biodiversity Preservation and Emergent Forest Conflicts, 1980-Present -- Notes -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821418659
Additional Edition:
Print version Wielding the Ax : State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820–2000
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Sunseri, Thaddeus Wielding the ax Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, 2009 ISBN 0821418653
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0821418645
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821418659
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780821418642
Language:
English
Subjects:
Agriculture, Forestry, Horticulture, Fishery, Domestic Science
,
Ethnology
Keywords:
Tansania
;
Staatsforst
;
Sozialer Konflikt
;
Geschichte 1820-2000
;
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