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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication, Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David Anderson |
| ISBN: | 0821414798 9780821414798 0821414801 9780821414804 0852554699 9780852554692 0852554680 9780852554685 |
| OCLC Number: | 50002472 |
| Description: | xvi, 336 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Development, Environment & Colonial History -- Agency, knowledge & politics -- Baringo: a land in decay? -- Baringo in the Nineteenth Century c.1840-1900 -- The Baringo lowlands before 1900 -- The coming of colonialism -- Lines on a Map -- Moving frontiers c. 1900-1920 -- Expanding horizons -- Closing frontiers -- The Baringo lowlands in 1920 -- Kiplel Kowo - 'The White Bones' -- Drought & Depression 1917-39 -- Catalogue of crisis -- Strategies for survival -- Depression & European farming -- The Baringo Range War, 1918-48 -- Trespass: 'a little place on the scene' -- Policing, punishment & public opinion -- Grazing, Goats, & Responsible Government -- The Kenya Land Commission 1932-34 -- The Land Commission, 1932-34 -- The overstocking debate -- Trading on 'The Goat Standard' -- European ideals, African realities -- Reconditioning the Range -- The Emerging Politics of Ecology, 1929-1940s -- Rhetoric & reality -- Reconditioning reassessed -- Compulsory culling -- The Politics of Property -- African Land Development in Baringo, 1940-63 -- Development plans, developing problems, 1940-50 -- Esageri & Solai -- Enclosing the range, 1950-63 -- The Captured Forest -- Lembus, 1904-63 -- Alienation & commercial forestry -- 'Native rights' -- Politics in the forest, 1938-63 -- Watering the Shamba -- The Perkerra Irrigation Scheme, 1952-63 -- The perils of planning -- Tenants & technicians -- Indigenous irrigation -- Learning from the past? -- Colonial Development in Lowland Baringo -- Misreading history -- Appendix The Baringo historical texts. |
| Series Title: | Ohio University Press series in ecology and history; Eastern African studies |
| Responsibility: | David M. Anderson. |
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