From enslavement to environmentalism : politics on a Southern African frontier
by
 
Hughes, David McDermott.

Title
: 
From enslavement to environmentalism : politics on a Southern African frontier

Author
: 
Hughes, David McDermott.

ISBN
: 
9780295985909

Personal Author
: 
Hughes, David McDermott.

Publication Information
: 
Seattle : University of Washington Press, c2006.

Physical Description
: 
xvii, 285 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series
: 
Culture, place, and nature

Series Title
: 
Culture, place, and nature

General Note
: 
Formerly CIP.

Contents
: 
Introduction : power on African frontiers -- Compulsory labor and unclaimed land in Gogoi, Mozambique, 1862-1992 -- From clientship to land-grabbing in Vhimba, Zimbabwe, 1893-1990 -- Refugees, squatters, and the politics of land allocation in Vhimba -- Community forestry as land-grabbing in Vhimba -- Expatriate loggers and mapmakers in Gogoi -- Open native reserves or none? -- In conclusion, three liberal projects reassessed.

Abstract
: 
"This book takes a challenging ethnographic and historical look at the politics of eco-development in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border zone. David Hughes argues that European colonization in southern Africa - essentially an unsuccessful effort to turn the region into another North America or Australia - has profoundly reshaped rural politics and culture and continues to do so to this day, as neoliberal developers commoditize the lands of African peasants in the name of conservation and economic progress."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term
: 
Land use -- Zimbabwe -- Vhimba -- History.
 
Land tenure -- Zimbabwe -- Vhimba -- History.
 
Land use -- Mozambique -- Gogói -- History.
 
Land tenure -- Mozambique -- Gogói -- History.

Geographic Term
: 
Vhimba (Zimbabwe) -- Colonization.
 
Gogói (Mozambique) -- Colonization.

Electronic Access
: 
Table of contents only http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip061/2005027615.html


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