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| Title: | Special issue: The political ecology of trade, food production, and landscape transformations in Northeast Tanzania: 1850-2000 |
| Editors: | Widgren, Mats Håkansson, N. Thomas Börjeson, Lowe |
| Year: | 2008 |
| Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies (ISSN 0361-7882) |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Pages: | 369-609 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | Tanzania |
| Subjects: | land use landscape agricultural ecology agricultural history irrigation symbols nature conservation 1850-1899 1900-1999 |
| Abstract: | This special issue of The International Journal of African Historical Studies looks at land use and landscapes in northeastern Tanzania as expressions of human activities, focusing on the period 1850-2000. Contributions: Introduction: historical and regional perspectives on landscape transformations in northeastern Tanzania, 1850-2000, by N. Thomas Håkansson, Mats Widgren and Lowe Börjeson; Changes in political economy and ecology in West-Usambara, Tanzania: ca. 1850-1950, by Frans D. Huijzendveld; Mastering the landscape? Sisal plantations, land and labor in Tanga region, 1893-1980s, by Hanan Sabea; Regional political ecology and intensive cultivation in precolonial and colonial South Pare, Tanzania, by N. Thomas Håkansson; The expansion of traditional irrigation in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania, by Mattias Tagseth; Tanzania ritual perimetrics and African landscapes: the case of 'Dracaena', by Michael Sheridan; Northeast Tanzania's disappearing rangelands: historical perspectives on recent land use change, by Lowe Börjeson, Dorothy L. Hodgson and Pius Z. Yanda; Preserving the New Tanzania: conservation and land use change, by Dan Brockington, Hassan Sachedina and Katherine Scholfield. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
