From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a Southern African Frontier

by David Mcdermott Hughes

Book Overview

From Enslavement to Environmentalism takes a challenging ethnographic and historical look at the politics of eco-development in the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border zone. David Hughes argues that European colonization in southern Africa--essentially an unsuccessful effort to turn the region into another North America or Australia--has profoundly reshaped rural politics and culture and continues to do so, as neoliberal developers commoditize the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295988401
• ISBN13: 9780295988405
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher