01626nam a22002297a 4500003000500000005001700005008004100022020003000063040002300093082002100116100002000137245007800157260005100235300005500286490005500341500001400396504001700410520092300427521001001350651001701360700001901377322820241024100808.0241024b        sa ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d  a9780521 010702cPaperback  aRDAbEnglishc3228  a306.3490968 JACO  aJacobs, Nancy J  aEnvironment, Power, and Injustice a South African HistorycNancy J Jacobs  aCambridge:bCambridge University Press,c2003.  axxi, 293 pagesbcolour illustrations: mapsc24 cm.  a Environment, Power, and Injusticev9780521 010702  amonograph  aNot Included  aSummary: This book presents the socio-environmental history of the black people in the area near Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods - Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s - Environment, Power, and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender, and race. While exploring biological, geological, and climatology forces in history, this book argues that the challenges of existence in a semidesert arose more from human injustice than from deficiencies in the natural environment.  In fact, powerful people drew strength from and exercised their power over others through the environment. At the same time, the natural world provided marginal peoples with some relief from human injustice.  aAdult  aSouth Africa  aNancy J Jacobs