Most Promising Weed: A History of Tobacco Farming and Labor in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890–1945, Steven C. Rubert

Автор: Louis Druehl
Название: Cedar, Salmon & Weed
ISBN: 1926991613 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781926991610
Издательство: Gazelle Book Services
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Цена: 25730.00 T
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Описание: In the vein of Steinbecks Cannery Row, this novel takes the reader on a wild ride to a community turned upside-down by the social changes of the 1970s. Seen through the eyes of a young man newly fled from his straight-laced Dutch upbringing, the fishing village of Bamfield on Vancouver Islands pristine west coast is the unlikely meeting place of an uneasy mix of fishermen, the Nuu-chah-nulth whaling clan, hippies, drug peddlers, and the scientists and students of the Bamfield Marine Station. Gaz, a marine biologist, begins to live the laidback life of Lotusland in the 70s, becoming a beachcomber and small-time marijuana grower with his two friends, rich kid Blay and Nuu-chah-nulth aristocrat Ben. And not long after, he falls in love with Heidi, a student at the Marine Station. But things go terribly wrong: greedy Blay brings big-city interests into their casual pot business, Ben is murdered, Heidis affections begin to wane and the local police are on to them.

Автор: Victor Muchineripi Gwande
Название: Manufacturing in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1979: Interest Group Politics, Protectionism & the State
ISBN: 1847013333 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781847013330
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: A key book on Zimbabwe`s industrial policy and the relationship between manufacturing, the state, and economic interest groups.

Автор: Elijah Doro
Название: Plunder for Profit: A Socio-Environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe
ISBN: 100909839X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781009098397
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines how tobacco became an institutionalised culture of production, which was linked to state power and natural ecosystems, and driven by a pernicious heritage of unbridled plunder. With the destruction of landscapes, the negative impacts of the export trade and the growing tobacco epidemic in Zimbabwe, tobacco farming has a long and varied legacy in southern African and across the world. Connecting the local to the global, and the environmental to the social, this book illuminates our understandings of environmental history, colonialism and sustainability.