From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a South African Frontier.(Book review)

Canadian Journal of History | September 22, 2007| | Copyright

From Enslavement to Environmentalism: Politics on a South African Frontier, by David McDermott Hughes. Culture, Place, and Nature series. Seattle, University of Washington Press, 2006. xvii, 285 pp. $55.00 Cdn (cloth).

In the mid-1990s, David McDermott Hughes arrived with "high hopes" on the Zimbabwe-Mozambique border to help smallholders with democratization, liberalization, and land redistribution (p. 186). This book is about coming to terms with his disappointments. In the process he offers a rich anthropological interpretation of cultures of ownership and ...

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