The rise of conservation in South Africa: settlers, livestock, and the environment, 1770-1950

Abstract

Preface and Acknowledgements Lists of Figures, Illustrations, Tables, and Maps Introduction: Livestock Farming and Environmental Regulation at the Cape 1. Scientific Travellers, Colonists, and Africans: Chains of Knowledge and the Cape Vernacular, 1770-1850 2. Defining the Problems: Colonial Science and the Origins of Conservation at the Cape 1770-1860 3. Fire, Vegetation Change, and Pastures 1860-1880 4. Vets, Viruses, and Environmentalism in the 1870s and 1880s 5. Water, Irrigation, and the State 1880-1930 6. The Night of the Jackal: Sheep, Pastures, and Predators 1890-1930 7. Drought, Conservation, and Nationalism: the Career of H. S. du Toit 1900-1940 8. Prickly Pear in the Cape: Useful Plants and Invaders in the Livestock Economy 1890-1950 9. 'The Farmer as a Conservationalist': Sidney Rubidge at Wellwood, Graaff-Reinet 1913-1952 10. Debating Conservation in the African Areas of the Cape 1920-1950 11. Postscript: Debating Degradation over the Long Term: Animals, Veld, and Conservation Bibliographical Note Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources Index