Title:	Environment, Power, and Injustice
Other Titles:	A South African History
Authors:	Nancy J., Jacobs Donald Worster Donald Worster
Keywords:	A South African History
Issue Date:	2003
Publisher:	Cambridge
Description:	This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people in the area near 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 natu
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/10042
ISBN:	978-0-511-07299-4
Appears in Collections:	African Studies

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