Social History and African Environments

William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford; JoAnn McGregor is Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Reading

Introduction by William Beinart & JoAnn McGregor I AFRICAN ENVIRONMENTAL IDEAS & PRACTICES Hidden fruits: a social ecology of fruit trees in Namibia & Angola, 1880s-1990s by Emmanuel Kreike - The ironies of plant transfer: the case of prickly pear in Madagascar by Karen Middleton - Environmental data & historical process: historical climatic reconstruction & the Mutapa State, 1450-1862 AD by Innocent Pikirayi - Women & environment in African religion: the case of Zimbabwe by Terence Ranger - Living with the river: landscape & memory in the Zambesi valley, northwest Zimbabwe by JoAnn McGregor II COLONIAL SCIENCE, THE STATE & AFRICAN RESPONSES African environments & environmental sciences: the African Research Survey, ecological paradigms & British colonial development, 1920-1940 by Helen Tilley - Soil conservation policies in colonial Kigezi, Uganda: successful implementation & an absence of resistance by Grace Carswell - Conservation & resistance in colonial Malawi: the 'dead north' revisited by John McCracken - Representations of custom, social identity & environmental relations in Central Tanzania, 1926-1950 by Ingrid Yngstrom III SETTLERS & AFRICANS; CULTURE & NATURE An unnatural state: tourism, water & wildlife photography in the early Kruger National Park by David Bunn - The ant of the white soul: popular natural history & the politics of Afrikaner identity, with reference to the entomological writings of Eugene Marais by Sandra Swart - Fido: Dog tales of colonialism in Namibia by Robert J. Gordon - Past & future landscape ideology: the Kalahari Gemsbok National Park by Jane Carruthers