Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lesotho
Languages : en
Pages : 79
Book Description
Annual Report on Basutoland for the Year 1947
Author: Basutoland
Author: Basutoland. Director of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Annual Report on Basutoland
Author: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lesotho
Languages : en
Pages : 586
Book Description
Annual Report on Basutoland for the Year ...
Author: Annual Report on Basutoland
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lesotho
Languages : en
Pages : 1724
Book Description
Basutoland
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lesotho
Languages : en
Pages : 886
Book Description
Annual Report on Jamaica
Author: Great Britain. Colonial OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jamaica
Languages : en
Pages : 844
Book Description
Basutoland
Author: Great Britain. Office of Commonwealth RelationsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Lesotho
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: S. SteinbergPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270824
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1609
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Imperial Gullies
Author: Kate Barger ShowersPublisher: Ohio University Press
ISBN: 0821416138
Category : Soil conservation
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
Once the grain basket for South Africa, much of Lesotho has become a scarred and treeless wasteland. The nation's spectacular gullying has concerned environmentalists and conservationists for more than half a century, In Imperial Gullies: Soil Erosion and Conservation in Lesotho, Kate B. Showers documents the truth behind this devastation. Showers reconstructs the history of the landscape, beginning with a history of the soil. She concludes that Lesotho's distinctive erosion chasms, called dongas, often cited as an example of destructive land-use practices by African farmers, actually were caused by colonial and postcolonial practices. The residents of Lesotho emerge as victims of a failed technology. Their efforts to mitigate or resist implementation of destructive soil conservation engineering works were thwarted, and they were blamed for the consequences of policies promoted by international soil conservationists since the 1930s. Imperial Gullies calls for an observational, experimental and, most importantly, a fully consultative and participatory approach to address Lesotho's serious contemporary problems of soil erosion. The first book to bring to center stage the historical practice of colonial soil science and a cautionary tale of western science in unfamiliar terrain it will interest a broad, interdisciplinary audience in African and environmental studies, social sciences, and history. "Showers shows how local people understood that colonial contour conservation methods and road building actually stimulated gully erosion, something colonial scientists failed to realize. Overall it is undoubtedly one of the most important books written to date on any part of the environmental history of Africa. Moreover it stands out in the discipline of environmental history in general as an unusually sophisticated work of great insight and explanatory power."---Richard H. Grove, author of Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism, 1600-1860 Kate B. Showers is a visiting research fellow and senior research associate at the Centre for World Environmental History, University of Sussex, England. She has lived in rural Lesotho and has served as head of research, Institute of Southern African Studies, National University of Lesotho.