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" Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa / "
edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell
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BL
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628763
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Landscape and environment in colonial and postcolonial Africa /\ edited by Toyin Falola and Emily Brownell
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| Series Statement
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Routledge African studies ;; 6
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xi, 342 pages ;; 24 cm
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9780415895934
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: 0415895936
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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| Contents
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Introduction : Landscapes, environments and technology : looking out, looking back / Emily Brownell and Toyin Falola -- Chimpanzees in the colonial maelstrom : struggles over knowledge, race, and commodities in the Gabonese primate trade, c. 1850-1940 / Jeremy Rich -- Appraising nature : pastoralist practice, hunting logics, and landscape ideology in colonial Southern Africa / Laura J. Mitchell -- The railway in colonial East Africa : colonial iconography and African appropriation of a new technology / Christiane Reichart -- Science, technology and the African woman during (British) colonization, 1916-1960 : the case of Bamenda Province / Bridget A. Teboh -- Western biomedicine and colonialism : the Church Missionary Society medical mission in the Lake Victoria Basin / Hannington Ochwada -- The price of "modernity"? : Western railroad technology and the 1918 influenza pandemic in Nigeria / Tokunbo A. Ayoola -- Labor costs and the failed support of progressive farmers in colonial Malawi / Erik Green -- Cattle in British Southern Cameroons : innovations in grazing and environmental control 1916-1960 / Emmanuel M. Mbah -- The role of indigenous knowledge in environmental conservation in Africa : the case of the Abaluyia of western Kenya / Maurice Amutabi -- Managerial technologies, [il]legal livelihoods and the forgotten consumers of Africa's largest freshwater fishery / Jennifer Lee Johnson -- Fictionalizing the crisis of the environment in Ben Okri's The famished road and Songs of enchantment / Kayode O. Ogunfolabi -- Health transitions and environmental change in contemporary Africa / Kathryn H. Jacobsen -- Growing a global green economy : getting Africa prepared to lend a hand / Rubin Patterson -- Conclusion : environmental crisis and development / Emily Brownell
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Environmental policy-- Africa-- History
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Land use-- Environmental aspects-- Africa-- History
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Technology-- Environmental aspects-- Africa-- History
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Economic development-- Environmental aspects-- Africa-- History
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333.7096
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HD965.L36 2011
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Falola, Toyin
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Brownell, Emily
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