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Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820–2000

2009 Ohio University Press ;ISBN: 0821443968 ;ISBN: 9780821443965 ;ISBN: 9780821418659 ;ISBN: 0821418653 ;EISBN: 0821443968 ;EISBN: 9780821443965 ;OCLC: 742512933 ;LCCallNum: SD242.T35S86 2009

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  • Title:
    Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820–2000
  • Author: Sunseri, Thaddeus
  • Subjects: Africa ; East ; Forest policy ; Forests and forestry ; HISTORY ; NATURE ; Plants ; Political aspects ; Political Science ; Social aspects ; Tanzania ; Trees
  • Description: Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests.Thaddeus Sunseriuses the lens of forest history to explore some of the most profound transformations in Tanzania from the nineteenth century to the present. He explores anticolonial rebellions, the world wars, the depression, the Cold War, oil shocks, and nationalism through their intersections with and impacts on Tanzania's coastal forests and woodlands. InWielding the Ax, forest history becomes a microcosm of the origins, nature, and demise of colonial rule in East Africa and of the first fitful decades of independence.Wielding the Axis a story of changing constellations of power over forests, beginning with African chiefs and forest spirits, both known as "ax-wielders," and ending with international conservation experts who wield scientific knowledge as a means to controlling forest access. The modern international concern over tropical deforestation cannot be understood without an awareness of the long-term history of these forest struggles.
  • Publisher: Athens, OH: Ohio University Press
  • Creation Date: 2009
  • Format: 304
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISBN: 0821443968
    ISBN: 9780821443965
    ISBN: 9780821418659
    ISBN: 0821418653
    EISBN: 0821443968
    EISBN: 9780821443965
    OCLC: 742512933
    LCCallNum: SD242.T35S86 2009
  • Source: Ebook Central Academic Complete
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