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

Name: Wielding the Ax State Forestry and Social Conflict in Tanzania, 1820-2000
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ISBN: 9780821418659

ISBN-10: 0821418653

ISBN-13: 9780821418659

Edition: 2009

Authors: Thaddeus Sunseri

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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 Tanzaniarsquo;s coastal forests and woodlands. InWielding the Ax,forest history becomes a…

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List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Publication date: 3/9/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.474
Language: English

Thaddeus Sunseri is associate professor of history at Colorado State University. His articles on the social and labor history of Tanzania under German rule have appeared in the Journal of African History, the International Journal of African Historical Studies, African Affairs, and the Canadian Journal of African Studies.



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Preface


Acknowledgments


Author's Notes


Abbreviations



The Ax and the Copal Tree Forests and Political Consolidation in the Coastal Hinterland, ca. 1820-90



Colonizing the Mangroves of German East Africa, 1890-1914



Insurgency in the Coastal Forests, 1904-14



State Forestry in a Colonial Backwater, 1920-40



Forestry and Forced Resettlement in Colonial Tanzania, 1920-50



Forestry Unbound Reservation and Resistance from World War II to Independence, 1946-61



Creating Modern Tanzanians State Forestry from Uhuru through Ujamaa, 1961-80



Biodiversity Preservation and Emergent Forest Conflicts, 1980-Present


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