01897oam 2200433 a 450 991069805820332120100506152903.0(CKB)5470000002394420(OCoLC)303566240(EXLCZ)99547000000239442020090212d2009 ua 0engurbn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTo take certain actions under the African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Generalized System of Preferences[electronic resource] message from the President of the United States transmitting a proclamation to take certain actions under the African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Generalized System of Preferences, pursuant to section (f)(1)(A) of the Trade Act of 1974Washington :U.S. G.P.O.,2009.1 electronic text (4 pages) HTML, digital, PDF fileHouse document / 110th Congress, 2d session ;110-159Title from title screen (viewed Feb. 12, 2009)."Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.""January 3, 2009."To take certain actions under the African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Generalized System of Preferences Tariff preferencesKosovo (Republic)Tariff preferencesAzerbaijanTariff preferencesTariff preferencesBush George W(George Walker),1946-1096751United States.Congress.House.Committee on Ways and Means.GPOGPOGPOOCLCQGPOBOOK9910698058203321To take certain actions under the African Growth and Opportunity Act and the Generalized System of Preferences3495711UNINA05050nam 2200805Ia 450 991097187320332120250305221456.097811366576411136657649978113665765811366576579780203806760020380676X10.4324/9780203806760(CKB)2550000000097700(EBL)957388(OCoLC)798533068(SSID)ssj0000678142(PQKBManifestationID)11930417(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000678142(PQKBWorkID)10699453(PQKB)10674205(MiAaPQ)EBC957388(Au-PeEL)EBL957388(CaPaEBR)ebr10542332(CaONFJC)MIL760902(OCoLC)830348365(FINmELB)ELB141351(EXLCZ)99255000000009770020110322d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrLandscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa /edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell1st ed.New York Routledge20111 online resource (355 p.)Routledge African studies ;6Description based upon print version of record.9780415719537 0415719534 9780415895934 0415895936 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Landscape, Environment and Technology in Colonial and Postcolonial Africa; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures and Maps; List of Tables; Introduction: Landscapes, Environments and Technology- Looking Out, Looking Back; Part I : Commodifying Nature and Constructing Landscapes; 1. Chimpanzees in the Colonial Maelstrom: Struggles over Knowledge, Race and Commodities in the Gabonese Primate Trade, c. 1850-1940; 2. Appraising Nature: Pastoralist Practice, Hunting Logics and Landscape Ideology in Colonial Southern Africa3. The Railway in Colonial East Africa: Colonial Iconography and African Appropriation of a New TechnologyPart II : Colonized Environments: Domestication, Medicine and Technology; 4. Science, Technology and the African Woman During (British) Colonization, 1916-1960: The Case of Bamenda Province; 5. Western Biomedicine and Colonialism: The Church Missionary Society Medical Mission in the Lake Victoria Basin; 6. The Price of "Modernity"? Western Railroad Technology and the 1918 Infl uenza Pandemic in NigeriaPart III : Cultivation and Conservation: Contested Theory and Practice in Colonial Encounters7. Labor Costs and the Failed Support of Progressive Farmers in Colonial Malawi; 8. Cattle in British Southern Cameroons: Innovations in Grazing and Environmental Control 1916-1960; 9. The Role of Indigenous Knowledge in Environmental Conservation in Africa: The Case of the Abaluyia of Western Kenya; 10. Managerial Technologies, [I]legal Livelihoods and the Forgotten Consumers of Africa's Largest Freshwater FisheryPart IV : Postcolonial African Landscapes: Locating Africa in the Global Environmental Crisis11. Fictionalizing the Crisis of the Environment in Ben Okri's The Famished Road and Songs of Enchantment; 12. Health Transitions and Environmental Change in Contemporary Africa; 13. Growing a Global Green Economy: Getting Africa Prepared to Lend a Hand; Conclusion Environmental Crisis and Development; Contributors; IndexThis volume seeks to identify and examine two categories of colonial and postcolonial knowledge production about Africa. These two broad categories are ""environment"" and ""landscape,"" and both are useful and problematic to explore. Discussions about African environments often concentrate on Africans as perpetrators of their own land, causing degradation from lack of knowledge and technology. ""Landscape"" defines the category of knowledge produced by foreigners about Africa, where Africans remain part of the scenery and yield no agency over their surroundings. To flesh out these categoriRoutledge African studies ;6.Environmental policyAfricaHistoryLand useEnvironmental aspectsAfricaHistoryTechnologyEnvironmental aspectsAfricaHistoryEconomic developmentEnvironmental aspectsAfricaHistoryEnvironmental policyHistory.Land useEnvironmental aspectsHistory.TechnologyEnvironmental aspectsHistory.Economic developmentEnvironmental aspectsHistory.333.7096Falola Toyin661412Brownell Emily1791590MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910971873203321Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa4329240UNINA