Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History

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.

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 'This is a seminal contribution to southern African rural and environmental history, authoritatively meshing natural and socio-political environments in ways that make many new connections and interpretations ... Jacob's approach throughout is refreshingly nonideological and morally aware ...'. Anthony Lemon, Oxford University, , Cultural Geographies