The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950
This is a major and innovative contribution to the environmental history of settler societies and of South Africa. The Cape, like Australia, became a major exporter of wool. Vast numbers of sheep flooded its semi-arid plains and rapidly transformed its fragile natural pastures. This book analyses...
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This is a major and innovative contribution to the environmental history of settler societies and of South Africa. The Cape, like Australia, became a major exporter of wool. Vast numbers of sheep flooded its semi-arid plains and rapidly transformed its fragile natural pastures. This book analyses the development of conservationalist ideas over the long term in South Africa as a response to these problems.
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Format: Hardcover
ISBN:
9780199261512 (0199261512)
ASIN: 0199261512
Publish date: 2004-01-29
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Pages no: 456
Edition language: English
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