Orchards of Privilege: Water, Oranges, and Race in the Gamtoos Valley of South Africa, 1700-2023

by Robert Ross

This study of the Gamtoos River floodplain in South Africa's Eastern Cape Province traces its transformation from an eighteenth-century natural landscape of thick bush into an agricultural zone now threatened by climate change. The first half of the book explains how missionaries from the London Missionary Society and residents of the Hankey Mission Station introduced irrigation, turning the area into a community of small-scale farmers. Despite...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0821426206
• ISBN13: 9780821426203
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: Ohio University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.