Segregated Species: Pests, Knowledge, and Boundaries in South Africa, 1910-1948

A timely history of the connections between science, segregation, and species in twentieth-century South Africa.

Winner of the First Book Prize by the Royal Historical Society

Throughout the twentieth century, rural South Africa was dominated by systems of racial segregation and apartheid that brutally oppressed its Black population. At the same time, the countryside was defined by a related settler obsession: the control of animals that farmers, scientists, and state officials considered pes...