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Periodical issue | Leiden University catalogue | WorldCat |
Title: | Environmental history |
Editor: | Sittert, Lance Van |
Year: | 2005 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal (ISSN 0258-2473) |
Issue: | 53 |
Pages: | 182 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | South Africa Botswana |
Subjects: | environmental history indigenous knowledge San landscape cattle diseases forestry landownership Rehoboth Basters cartography |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/rshj20/53/1 |
Abstract: | This special issue on South Africa's environmental history contains contributions on indigenous knowledge and its use in environmental history (the case of the /Xam and their understanding of the springbok treks), by Chris Roche; the Eastern Cape's Fish River Bush as a 'frontier' landscape in the 19th century and its historiograpical representation, by P.R. Anderson; the spread and impact of the lungsickness epizootic of 1853-1857 in the Cape Colony and the Xhosa chiefdoms, by Christian B. Andreas; the spread of rinderpest in Bechuanaland in 1896, by Gary Marquardt; cattle growing in Natal, 1860-1960, by Harald Witt; 'Bastaard' landownership and occupancy in the Cape Colony in the 19th century, by Dawn Nell; and survey and mapping in the eastern Transvaal, 1852-1905, by Lindsay Frederick Braun. [ASC Leiden abstract] |