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Author Hughes, David McDermott.

Title From enslavement to environmentalism [electronic resource] : politics on a Southern African frontier / David McDermott Hughes.

Imprint Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xvii, 285 p. : ill., maps.
Series Culture, place, and nature
Culture, place, and nature.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 203-271) and index.
Contents Introduction : power on African frontiers -- Colonization, failed and successful -- Compulsory labor and unclaimed land in Gogoi, Mozambique, 1862-1992 -- From clientship to land-grabbing in Vhimba, Zimbabwe, 1893-1990 -- The border -- Refugees, squatters, and the politics of land allocation in Vhimba -- Community forestry as land-grabbing in Vhimba -- Expatriate loggers and mapmakers in Gogoi -- Native questions -- Open native reserves or none? -- In conclusion, three liberal projects reassessed.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Land use -- Zimbabwe -- Vhimba -- History.
Land tenure -- Zimbabwe -- Vhimba -- History.
Land use -- Mozambique -- Gogoi -- History.
Land tenure -- Mozambique -- Gogoi -- History.
Vhimba (Zimbabwe) -- Colonization.
Gogoi (Mozambique) -- Colonization.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0295985909 (hardback : alk. paper)
9780295988405
9780295800516 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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