Robert Ross

Gebundenes Buch

Orchards of Privilege

Water, Oranges, and Race in the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa, 1700-2023

Beschreibung

From the mid-eighteenth century to the early twenty-first century, the Gamtoos floodplain in South Africa has shifted from thick bush into a thriving agricultural system based on citrus orchards and market gardening. This book traces that transformation and the control of water that made it possible.

Autor

Robert Ross is a professor emeritus of African studies at the Leiden University Institute for History. His books include Things Change: Black Material Culture and the Development of a Consumer Society in South Africa, 1800-2020 and The Borders of Race in Colonial South Africa: The Kat River Settlement, 1829-1856.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. August 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm
• ISBN-13: 9780821425992
• ISBN-10: 0821425994
• Artikelnr.: 73532849