Population, Tradition, and Environmental Control in Colonial Kenya

Examines land management programs pushed by the colonial government in western Kenya between 1920 and 1963, analyzing how those programs were negotiated or contested by the local community.

List of contents

List of Illustrations
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction
Administrative and Demographic Changes: Implications on Land Relations, 1900-1930
Maize and Economic Prosperity, 1920-38
Internationalizing Degradation Narratives in Kenya, 1930-38
Prewar Soil Conservation Initiatives and Local Responses, 1934-38
Wartime Production in a Besieged Environment, 1939-45
Postwar Development and the Dilemma of "Reviving" African Traditions, 1945-63
Regional Migration and Failed Agricultural Intensification, 1940-66
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Martin S. Shanguhyia

Product details

• Authors: Martin S Shanguhyia, Martin S. Shanguhyia
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.12.2015
• EAN: 9781580465397
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-539-7
• No. of pages: 338
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 231 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 726 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education