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Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
July 2009
Print publication year:
2003
Online ISBN:
9780511511981
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511511981
Series:
Studies in Environment and History
Subjects:
Area Studies, African Studies, History, Regional History after 1500, African History
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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, and race. While exploring biological, geological, and climatological forces in history, this book argues that the challenges of existence in a semidesert arose more from human injustice than from deficiencies in the natural environment. In fact, powerful people drew strength from and exercised their power over others through the environment. At the same time, the natural world provided marginal peoples with some relief from human injustice.

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‘… a fascinating story of the relationships of different groups of people with their environment, as they interact with each other … a work of impeccably detailed research, supported by more than 50 pages of notes …’

Source: Geography

'This is a seminal contribution to southern African rural and environmental history, authoritatively meshing natural and socio-political environments in ways that make many new connections and interpretations … Jacob's approach throughout is refreshingly nonideological and morally aware …'

Anthony Lemon Source: Cultural Geographies

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