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Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820-2000 by Thaddeus Sunseri (Paperback, 2009)

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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 Sunseri uses 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. In Wielding 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 Ax is 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.

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Publisher
Ohio University Press
ISBN-13
9780821418659
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96241890

Product Key Features

Book Title
Wielding the Ax: State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820-2000
Author
Thaddeus Sunseri
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Science, History
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
304 Pages

Dimensions

Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm

Additional Product Features

Title_Author
Thaddeus Sunseri
Series Title
Series in Ecology and History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States

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