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Atlas of World Hunger
Av Alex Winter-Nelson, Thomas J. Bassett
E-bok, 2010
890 kr
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Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be “making sure that people are able to get enough to eat.” The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domestically and internationally, millions of people …
Writing the Land
French Imperial and Colonial Mapping of West Africa, 1854–1892
Inbunden, 2027
403 kr
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Reveals the intertwined nature of imperial mapping and map history through the making of the colony of French Soudan in nineteenth-century West Africa.Thomas J. Bassett’s Writing the Land argues that mapping played a key role in France’s territorial conquest of Africa, and that the process of …
The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa
Côte d'Ivoire, 1880-1995
Av Thomas J. Bassett, David Anderson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2001
1689 kr
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The literature of Africa is dominated by accounts of crisis and gloom. But Thomas Bassett, a distinguished American geographer well known in the field of development, tells an unusual story of the growth of the cotton economy of West Africa. One of the few long-running success stories in African …
The Peasant Cotton Revolution in West Africa
Côte d'Ivoire, 1880-1995
Av Thomas J. Bassett, David Anderson
Häftad, 2006
684 kr
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The literature of Africa is dominated by accounts of crisis and gloom. But Thomas Bassett, a distinguished American geographer well known in the field of development, tells an unusual story of the growth of the cotton economy of West Africa. One of the few long-running success stories in African …
African Savannas
Global Narratives and Local Knowledge of Environmental Change
Av Donald Crummey, Thomas J. Bassett m. fl.
Häftad, 2003
355 kr
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This work outlines the importance of local knowledge for understanding environmental change.African farmers and herders modify landscapes in far more subtle and unexpected ways than commonly depicted in environment and development debates. This interdisciplinary collection uses collaborative …
Maps of Africa to 1900
A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Av Thomas J Bassett, Yvette Scheven
Inbunden, 2022
426 kr
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Maps of Africa to 1900
A Checklist of Maps in Atlases and Geographical Journals in the Collections of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Av Thomas J Bassett, Yvette Scheven
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Atlas of World Hunger
Av Thomas J. Bassett, Alex Winter-Nelson
Inbunden, 2010
417 kr
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Earlier this year, President Obama declared one of his top priorities to be 'making sure that people are able to get enough to eat'. The United States spends about five billion dollars on food aid and related programs each year, but still, both domestically and internationally, millions of people …
Land in African Agrarian Systems
Av Thomas J. Bassett, Donald E. Crummey
Häftad, 1993
294 kr
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"Land in African Agrarian Systems" argues that proposals for sweeping changes in African agricultural land tenure are misconceived. Colonial administrators, African elites, and foreign aid donors have historically viewed the variety of indigenous landholding systems as obstacles to increased …
