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Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell
| Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Routledge, 2011 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
FalolaToyin
BrownellEmily |
| Collana | Routledge African studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy - Africa - History
Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Technology - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Economic development - Environmental aspects - Africa - History |
| ISBN |
1-136-65764-9
1-136-65765-7 0-203-80676-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Africa
3. 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 Nigeria Part 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 Fishery Part 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823437303321 |
| New York, : Routledge, 2011 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell
| Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BrownellEmily
FalolaToyin |
| Collana | Routledge African studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy - Africa - History
Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Technology - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Economic development - Environmental aspects - Africa - History |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-136-65765-7
0-203-80676-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Africa
3. 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 Nigeria Part 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 Fishery Part 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910451724103321 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell
| Landscape, environment and technology in colonial and postcolonial Africa / / edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (355 p.) |
| Disciplina | 333.7096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
BrownellEmily
FalolaToyin |
| Collana | Routledge African studies |
| Soggetto topico |
Environmental policy - Africa - History
Land use - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Technology - Environmental aspects - Africa - History Economic development - Environmental aspects - Africa - History |
| ISBN |
1-136-65764-9
1-136-65765-7 0-203-80676-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Africa
3. 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 Nigeria Part 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 Fishery Part 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910779043203321 |
| New York : , : Routledge, , 2012 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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