Plunder for Profit
Autor Elijah Doroen Limba Engleză Paperback – 5 iun 2025
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781009096256
ISBN-10: 1009096257
Pagini: 331
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-10: 1009096257
Pagini: 331
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Notă biografică
Elijah Doro is a research fellow at the University of Agder and an environmental historian with an interest in southern Africa. His research on agrarian and environmental histories is inspired by his personal experiences growing up in Zimbabwe's tobacco-farming countryside and participating in the tobacco production economy.
Cuprins
Introduction; 1. Global perspectives and local narratives: a socio-environmental history of pioneer tobacco farming in Southern Rhodesia, 1893-1945; 2. The post-war tobacco boom and the development of conservationism in Southern Rhodesia, 1947-1960; 3. A silenced spring? Exploring Africa's 'Rachel Carson moment': A socio-environmental history of the pesticides in tobacco production in Southern Rhodesia, 1945-1980; 4. Beyond agency: The African peasantry, the state and tobacco in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1980; 5. 'The threat of soil erosion is far more permanent than the threat of sanctions': The unilateral declaration of independence, war, and ecological change in tobacco farming landscapes in Southern Rhodesia, 1960-1980; 6. Tobacco control discourses and the tobacco industry in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe, 1953-2020; Conclusion.
Recenzii
'Motivated by his childhood experiences growing tobacco, Elijah Doro carefully reconstructs the history of tobacco cultivation in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe. The history of the cigarette is an African history and, as Doro deftly shows, it is one that cannot be understood apart from the land, labor, and aspirations of Zimbabweans who have staked their futures-wittingly and unwittingly-on the 'golden crop'.' Sarah Milov, University of Virginia
'Elijah Doro shows us how important historians can be in understanding the slow violence of the Anthropocene. However, he also shows how ordinary men and women survived this new world. This book brings old historiographies into new conversations and is one of the best examples yet of combining political economy and environmental history.' Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University
'Elijah Doro shows us how important historians can be in understanding the slow violence of the Anthropocene. However, he also shows how ordinary men and women survived this new world. This book brings old historiographies into new conversations and is one of the best examples yet of combining political economy and environmental history.' Sandra Swart, Stellenbosch University