Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Meredith McKittrickSeries:Science.CulturePublish date:2024-10-14Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226834696ISBN-10:226834697UPC:9780226834696Book Category:Technology & Engineering, History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Agriculture, Africa, HistoryBook Topic:Irrigation, SouthSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCY3WH498Y
Green Lands for White Men: Desert Dystopias and the Environmental Origins of Apartheid
How an audacious environmental engineering plan fanned white settlers' visions for South Africa, stoked mistrust in scientific experts, and gave rise to the Apartheid state. In 1918, South Africa's climate seemed to be drying up. White farmers claimed that rainfall was dwindling, while nineteenth-century missionaries and explorers had found riverbeds, seashells, and other evidence of a verdant...
Language:EnglishPublisher:University of Chicago PressISBN-13:9780226834696ISBN-10:226834697UPC:9780226834696Book Category:Technology & Engineering, History, ScienceBook Subcategory:Agriculture, Africa, HistoryBook Topic:Irrigation, SouthSize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.90 inchesWeight:1.0516Product ID:SCY3WH498Y
Meredith McKittrick is associate professor of history at Georgetown University. She is the author of To Dwell Secure: Generation, Christianity, and Colonialism in Ovamboland.
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