01711nam a22002537a 4500 3228 20241024100808.0 241024b sa ||||| |||| 00| 0 eng d 9780521 010702 Paperback RDA English 3228 306.3490968 JACO Jacobs, Nancy J 190085 Environment, Power, and Injustice a South African History Nancy J Jacobs Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xxi, 293 pages colour illustrations: maps 24 cm. Environment, Power, and Injustice 9780521 010702 monograph Not Included Summary: 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. Adult South Africa 116385 Nancy J Jacobs 190086 ddc JOURNAL 12663 Priscilla Nozizwe Mogale 12663 Priscilla Nozizwe Mogale 769333 769332 0 0 ddc 0 0 300 MKHUL MKHUL Non_Fiction 2024-10-24 249.00 0 306.3490968 JACO 33228 022947921 2024-10-24 2024-10-24 JOURNAL