This is a major and innovative contribution to the environmental history of settler societies and of South Africa. The Cape, like Australia, became a major exporter of wool. Vast numbers of sheep flooded its semi-arid plains and rapidly transformed its fragile natural pastures. This book analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa as a response to these problems.
This is a major and innovative contribution to the environmental history of settler societies and of South Africa. The Cape, like Australia, became a major exporter of wool. Vast numbers of sheep flooded its semi-arid plains and rapidly transformed its fragile natural pastures. This book analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa as a response to these problems.
William Beinart is Rhodes Professor of Race Relations, University of Oxford
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* Preface and Acknowledgements * Lists of Figures, Illustrations, Tables, and Maps * Introduction: Livestock Farming and Environmental Regulation at the Cape * 1: Scientific Travellers, Colonists, and Africans: Chains of Knowledge and the Cape Vernacular, 1770-1850 * 2: Defining the Problems: Colonial Science and the Origins of Conservation at the Cape 1770-1860 * 3: Fire, Vegetation Change, and Pastures 1860-1880 * 4: Vets, Viruses, and Environmentalism in the 1870s and 1880s * 5: Water, Irrigation, and the State 1880-1930 * 6: The Night of the Jackal: Sheep, Pastures, and Predators 1890-1930 * 7: Drought, Conservation, and Nationalism: the Career of H. S. du Toit 1900-1940 * 8: Prickly Pear in the Cape: Useful Plants and Invaders in the Livestock Economy 1890-1950 * 9: 'The Farmer as a Conservationalist': Sidney Rubidge at Wellwood, Graaff-Reinet 1913-1952 * 10: Debating Conservation in the African Areas of the Cape 1920-1950 * 11: Postscript: Debating Degradation over the Long Term: Animals, Veld, and Conservation * Bibliographical Note * Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources * Index
* Preface and Acknowledgements * Lists of Figures, Illustrations, Tables, and Maps * Introduction: Livestock Farming and Environmental Regulation at the Cape * 1: Scientific Travellers, Colonists, and Africans: Chains of Knowledge and the Cape Vernacular, 1770-1850 * 2: Defining the Problems: Colonial Science and the Origins of Conservation at the Cape 1770-1860 * 3: Fire, Vegetation Change, and Pastures 1860-1880 * 4: Vets, Viruses, and Environmentalism in the 1870s and 1880s * 5: Water, Irrigation, and the State 1880-1930 * 6: The Night of the Jackal: Sheep, Pastures, and Predators 1890-1930 * 7: Drought, Conservation, and Nationalism: the Career of H. S. du Toit 1900-1940 * 8: Prickly Pear in the Cape: Useful Plants and Invaders in the Livestock Economy 1890-1950 * 9: 'The Farmer as a Conservationalist': Sidney Rubidge at Wellwood, Graaff-Reinet 1913-1952 * 10: Debating Conservation in the African Areas of the Cape 1920-1950 * 11: Postscript: Debating Degradation over the Long Term: Animals, Veld, and Conservation * Bibliographical Note * Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources * Index
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