E-Book, Englisch, 247 Seiten
McGregor Crossing the Zambezi
1. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-1-84615-711-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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The Politics of Landscape on a Central African Frontier
E-Book, Englisch, 247 Seiten
ISBN: 978-1-84615-711-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
This is the story of 150 years of conflict and contested claims over control and access to the waters and banks of the River Zambezi, one of Africa's longest and most important rivers.
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Introduction: the politics of landscape on the Zambezi
Crossing the Zambezi: landscape & precolonial power
Mapping the Zambezi: imperial knowledge & the Zambezi frontier
Violence & law in the borderlands: early colonial authority & extraction
Bridging the Zambezi at Victoria Falls: science & early colonial expansion
Damming the Zambezi at Kariba: late colonial developmentalism
Reclaiming the borderlands: ethnicity, nationalism & war
Unsettled claims: the Tonga & the politics of recognition
Surviving in the borderlands: the 'unfinished business' of Lake Kariba
Unravelling the politics of landscape: a conclusion