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- catalog abstract ""James C. McCann provides a synthesis of evidence and a narrative of Africa's environmental history over the past two centuries. In a book readily accessible to undergraduates and nonspecialists, Professor McCann argues that far from being pristine and primordial spaces, Africa's landscapes were created by human activity. This argument contrasts strongly with the idealized notions of an African Eden commonly held in the West and in Africa itself. It also confronts more recent alarm about degradation of Africa's natural and human resources by examining the historical evidence of environmental change. Key topics within the book are the effects of population growth, disease, agricultural change, the state of natural resources, and the changing role of the state in how Africans have managed and changed their own landscapes."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b11132939.
- catalog coverage "Africa Environmental conditions History.".
- catalog created "c1999.".
- catalog date "1999".
- catalog date "c1999.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1999.".
- catalog description ""James C. McCann provides a synthesis of evidence and a narrative of Africa's environmental history over the past two centuries. In a book readily accessible to undergraduates and nonspecialists, Professor McCann argues that far from being pristine and primordial spaces, Africa's landscapes were created by human activity. This argument contrasts strongly with the idealized notions of an African Eden commonly held in the West and in Africa itself. It also confronts more recent alarm about degradation of Africa's natural and human resources by examining the historical evidence of environmental change. Key topics within the book are the effects of population growth, disease, agricultural change, the state of natural resources, and the changing role of the state in how Africans have managed and changed their own landscapes."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-192) and index.".
- catalog description "Introduction -- Africa's physical world -- Environment and history in Africa -- Desert lands, human hands -- A tale of two forests: narratives of deforestation in Ethiopia, 1840-1996 -- Food in the forest: biodiversity, food systems, and human settlement in Ghana's Upper Guinea Forest, 1000-1990 -- Soil matters: erosion and empire in Greater Lesotho, 1830-1990 -- Epilogue: Africa's environmental future as past.".
- catalog extent "xv, 201 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0325000964 (alk. paper)".
- catalog issued "1999".
- catalog issued "c1999.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann,".
- catalog spatial "Africa Environmental conditions History.".
- catalog subject "363.7/0096 21".
- catalog subject "GE160.A35 M36 1999".
- catalog tableOfContents "Introduction -- Africa's physical world -- Environment and history in Africa -- Desert lands, human hands -- A tale of two forests: narratives of deforestation in Ethiopia, 1840-1996 -- Food in the forest: biodiversity, food systems, and human settlement in Ghana's Upper Guinea Forest, 1000-1990 -- Soil matters: erosion and empire in Greater Lesotho, 1830-1990 -- Epilogue: Africa's environmental future as past.".
- catalog title "Green land, brown land, black land : an environmental history of Africa, 1800-1990 / James C. McCann.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".