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Author Tropp, Jacob Abram.

Title Natures of colonial change [electronic resource] : environmental relations in the making of the Transkei / Jacob A. Tropp.

Imprint Athens : Ohio University Press, c2006.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description xiv, 268 p. : ill.
Series New African histories series
New African histories series.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Tensions in the colonial restructuring of local environmental authority, 1880-c. 1915 -- Environmental entitlements in the new colonial order, 1888-c. 1905 -- Shifting terrains of wood access in the early twentieth century, 1903-1930s -- Remapping historical landscapes : forest species and the contours of social and cultural life -- The python and the crying tree : commentaries on the nature of colonial and environmental power.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Indigenous peoples -- Ecology -- South Africa -- Transkei -- History.
Indigenous peoples -- South Africa -- Transkei -- Social conditions.
Forest ecology -- South Africa -- Transkei.
Landscape changes -- South Africa -- Transkei.
Europe -- Colonies -- Africa.
Transkei (South Africa) -- Colonization.
Transkei (South Africa) -- Environmental conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0821416987 (cloth : alk. paper)
0821416995 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780821416983
9780821416990
9780821442272 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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