Environment, Power, and Injustice

Nancy J. Jacobs is Assistant Professor in the Department of African Studies and the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is a recipient of the Alice Hamilton article prize from the American Society for Environmental History.

'… a fascinating story of the relationships of different groups of people with their environment, as they interact with each other … a work of impeccably detailed research, supported by more than 50 pages of notes …' Geography

• Preface; 1. Approaching Kuruman; 2. Goat people and fish people on the agro-pastoral frontier, c. 1750–1830; 3. Intensification and social innovation on the cape frontier: 1820s–1885; 4. Colonial annexation: land alienation and environmental administration; 5. Environmental trauma, colonial rule and the failure of extensive food production, 1895–1903; 6. The environmental history of a 'labor reservoir', 1903–1970s; 7. Apportioning water, dividing land: segregation, 1910–1977; 8. Betterment and the Bophuthatswana donkey massacre: the environmental rights of tribal subjects; 9. Retrospectives on socio-environmental history and socio-environmental justice; Appendices.