Crossing the Zambezi : the politics of landscape on a Central African frontier
著者
書誌事項
Crossing the Zambezi : the politics of landscape on a Central African frontier
James Currey , Weaver Press, 2009
- hbk. : James Currey
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
  青森
  岩手
  宮城
  秋田
  山形
  福島
  茨城
  栃木
  群馬
  埼玉
  千葉
  東京
  神奈川
  新潟
  富山
  石川
  福井
  山梨
  長野
  岐阜
  静岡
  愛知
  三重
  滋賀
  京都
  大阪
  兵庫
  奈良
  和歌山
  鳥取
  島根
  岡山
  広島
  山口
  徳島
  香川
  愛媛
  高知
  福岡
  佐賀
  長崎
  熊本
  大分
  宮崎
  鹿児島
  沖縄
  韓国
  中国
  タイ
  イギリス
  ドイツ
  スイス
  フランス
  ベルギー
  オランダ
  スウェーデン
  ノルウェー
  アメリカ
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 214-228) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
This is the story of 150 years of conflict and contested claims over control and access to the waters and banks of the River Zambezi, one of Africa's longest and most important rivers.
This book is a history of claims to the Zambezi, focussed on the stretch of the river extending from the Victoria Falls downstream into Lake Kariba, which today constitutes the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. It is a story of150 years of conflict over the changing landscape of the river, in which the tension between the Zambezi's 'river people' and more powerful others has been central.
The Zambezi is one of Africa's longest and most important rivers - securing access to its waters and control over its banks, traffic and commerce were crucial political priorities for leaders of precolonial states no less than their colonial and postcolonial successors. The book is about the ways in which the course of the Zambezi has shaped history, its shifting role as link, barrier or conduit, the political, economic and cultural uses of the technological projects that have transformed the landscape, and their legacies in the conflicts of today. By investigating how the claims made today by Zambezi 'river people' relate to longer history of claims and appropriations, the book contributes to long-standing debates over the relationship between geography and history, landscape and power.
JOANN MCGREGOR is a Lecturer in Geography at University College London
目次
Introduction: the politics of landscape on the Zambezi
Crossing the Zambezi: landscape & precolonial power
Mapping the Zambezi: imperial knowledge & the Zambezi frontier
Violence & law in the borderlands: early colonial authority & extraction
Bridging the Zambezi at Victoria Falls: science & early colonial expansion
Damming the Zambezi at Kariba: late colonial developmentalism
Reclaiming the borderlands: ethnicity, nationalism & war
Unsettled claims: the Tonga & the politics of recognition
Surviving in the borderlands: the 'unfinished business' of Lake Kariba
Unravelling the politics of landscape: a conclusion
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