Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History

by Nancy J. Jacobs

Book Overview

This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods - Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s - Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521010705
• ISBN13: 9780521010702
• Release Date: June 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.9"