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020			_a9780521 010702 _cPaperback
040			_aRDA _bEnglish _c3228
082			_a306.3490968 JACO
100			_aJacobs, Nancy J _9190085
245			_aEnvironment, Power, and Injustice a South African History _cNancy J Jacobs
260			_aCambridge: _bCambridge University Press, _c2003.
300			_axxi, 293 pages _bcolour illustrations: maps _c24 cm.
490			_a Environment, Power, and Injustice _v9780521 010702
500			_amonograph
504			_aNot Included
520			_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.
521			_aAdult
651			_aSouth Africa _9116385
700			_aNancy J Jacobs _9190086
942			_2ddc _cJOURNAL _w12663 _xPriscilla Nozizwe Mogale _y12663 _zPriscilla Nozizwe Mogale
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