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Crossing the Zambezi : the politics of landscape on a Central African frontier /
This text is a history of claims to the Zambezi, focused on the stretch of the river extending from the Victoria Falls downstream into Lake Kariba, which today constitutes the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Woodbridge, UK ; Rochester, NY : Harare, Zimbabwe :
James Currey ; Weaver Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.