Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History

An Environmental History follows ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies Series dictum and synthesizes 'the intertwined fates of humanity and the natural world' on a continent whose natural history has fostered a substantial environmental diversity, and whose human history is the world's longest. Maddox evokes instead die violence and conflict inherent in the transfer of power to colonial authorities, whose scientifically based economic policies had begun to intervene directly in African land use systems with the aim of directing the production and flow of livestock, crops, and minerals.