The Rise of Conservation in South Africa: Settlers, Livestock, and the Environment 1770-1950

by William Beinart

Book Overview

The Rise of Conservation in South Africa is an innovative contribution to the growing comparative field of environmental history. Beinart's major theme is the history of conservationist ideas in South Africa. He focuses largely on the livestock farming districts of the semi-arid Karoo and the neighboring eastern Cape grasslands, conquered and occupied by white settlers before the middle of the nineteenth century. The Cape, like Australia, became a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199261512
• ISBN13: 9780199261512
• Release Date: January 2004
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"