The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950

by William Beinart

Overview

A major contribution to the environmental history of settler societies, William Beinart's innovative study analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa, examining them as a response to the rapid transformation of natural pastures brought about as the Cape became a major exporter of wool.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199261512
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/29/2004
Pages:	456
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.30(d)

About the Author

William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford

Table of Contents

Preface and AcknowledgementsLists of Figures, Illustrations, Tables, and MapsIntroduction: Livestock Farming and Environmental Regulation at the Cape1. Scientific Travellers, Colonists, and Africans: Chains of Knowledge and the Cape Vernacular, 1770-18502. Defining the Problems: Colonial Science and the Origins of Conservation at the Cape 1770-18603. Fire, Vegetation Change, and Pastures 1860-18804. Vets, Viruses, and Environmentalism in the 1870s and 1880s5. Water, Irrigation, and the State 1880-19306. The Night of the Jackal: Sheep, Pastures, and Predators 1890-19307. Drought, Conservation, and Nationalism: the Career of H. S. du Toit 1900-19408. Prickly Pear in the Cape: Useful Plants and Invaders in the Livestock Economy 1890-19509. 'The Farmer as a Conservationalist': Sidney Rubidge at Wellwood, Graaff-Reinet 1913-195210. Debating Conservation in the African Areas of the Cape 1920-195011. Postscript: Debating Degradation over the Long Term: Animals, Veld, and ConservationBibliographical NoteSelect Bibliography of Secondary SourcesIndex

Editorial Reviews

"Review from previous edition: "William Beinart's complex and wonderfully informative book has its origins in the author's long-standing interest in the ideas that 'underpinned environmental regulation in Africa districts' of the Cape Colony and, to a leseer extent , the other territorial compnents of the Union of South Africa after 1910."—The English Historical Review

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