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The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, "Ideas", enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed...
Brill
Departement Geschichte / Geschichte Afrikas (Tischler)
The volume Environmental Change and African Societies contributes to current debates on global climate change from the perspectives of the social sciences and the humanities. It charts past and present environmental change in different African settings and also discusses policies and scenarios for the future. The first section, "Ideas", enquires into local perceptions of the environment, followed...
Brill
Departement Geschichte / Geschichte Afrikas (Tischler)
The first comprehensive and authoritative history of work and labour in Africa; a key text for all working on African Studies and Labour History worldwide. Co-published with the International Labour Organization on the centenary of its founding in 1919, the General Labour History of Africa is a landmark in the study of labour history. It brings, for the first time, an African perspective within a...
James Currey
Departement Geschichte / Geschichte Afrikas (Tischler)
By exploring agricultural education initiatives in South Africa in the period from the 1910s to the 1930s, this article seeks to expand the historiography of both Black internationalism and global progressivism to include Black agrarianism and questions of race from a transatlantic perspective. In their efforts to promote scientific farming, Black progressive farmers in the Eastern Cape reserves...
The American Historical Review
Departement Geschichte / Geschichte Afrikas (Tischler)
During the first half of the twentieth century, deep structural changes occurred in the South African countryside. While farming became an important pillar of the national economy, more and more people left the land in search of better lives in towns and cities. This article examines agricultural education, an early avenue of state intervention in farming, to elucidate how officials and groups of...
Journal of African history
Departement Geschichte / Geschichte Afrikas (Tischler)
Wasser für die Landwirtschaft, Routen für den Handel, Strom für Industrialisierung und Urbanisierung - Königreiche, Kolonien und Nationalstaaten bauten und bauen auf das symbolische und wirtschaftliche Potential von Flüssen. Julia Tischler beleuchtet ihre Bedeutung in Afrikas Geschichte und Gegenwart.
Afrika Bulletin
Departement Geschichte / Geschichte Afrikas (Tischler)
Using the Kariba dam project as a case study, this article examines some of the biases and interdependencies of development planning in 1950s Northern Rhodesia in order to consider Zambia's trajectory into independence. The Kariba dam, a highly controversial hydroelectricity scheme in the short-lived Central African Federation, crystallises the ambivalent practices of building nations -...
Journal of Southern African Studies
Departement Geschichte / Geschichte Afrikas (Tischler)
