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Custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania
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Custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania

Author: Gregory Maddox; James Leonard Giblin; Isaria N Kimambo
Publisher: London : James Curry ; Athens : Ohio University Press, 1996.
Series: Eastern African studies
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Material Type: Government publication, State or province government publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Gregory Maddox; James Leonard Giblin; Isaria N Kimambo
ISBN: 0821411330 9780821411339 0821411349 9780821411346 0852557256 9780852557259 0852557248 9780852557242
OCLC Number: 32892268
Description: xiv, 271 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Contents: Introduction : custodians of the land : ecology & culture in the history of Tanzania / James Giblin & Gregory Maddox -- pt. 1. Environmental & demographic change -- Introduction -- 1. Population : a dependent variable / Juhani Koponen -- 2. Environment & population growth in Ugogo, Central Tanzania -- pt. 2. Environmental change & economic history in Tanzania's northern highlands -- Introduction -- 3. Environmental control & hunger in the mountains & plains of northeastern Tanzania / Isaria N. Kimambo -- 4. Nature reorganized : ecological history in the plateau forests of the west Usambara Mountains, 1850-1935 / Christopher Conte -- pt. 3. Politics & environmental change -- Introduction -- 5. The precolonial politics of disease control in the lowlands of northeastern Tanzania / James L. Giblin -- 6. 'We don't want terraces' : protest & identity under the Uluguru land usage scheme / Pamela A. Maack -- pt. 4. Environment & mortality -- Introduction -- 7. Environment, community & history : 'nature in the mind' in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Buha, western Tanzania / Michele Wagner -- 8. Canoe-building under colonialism : forestry & food policies in the inner Kilombero Valley, 1920-40 / Jamie Monson -- 9. Struggles for the land : the political & moral economies of land on Mount Meru / Thomas Spear -- Conclusion/ Isaria N. Kimambo.
Series Title: Eastern African studies
Responsibility: edited by Gregory Maddox, James L. Giblin & Isaria N. Kimambo.

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