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Informationen zum Autor Thaddeus Sunseri is a professor of African history at Colorado State University in Fort Collins. He is the author of Vilimani: Labor Migration and Rural Change in Early Colonial Tanzania. Klappentext Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades! a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests. Thaddeus Sunseri uses the lens of forest history to explore some of the most profound transformations in Tanzania from the nineteenth century to the present. He explores anticolonial rebellions! the world wars! the depression! the Cold War! oil shocks! and nationalism through their intersections with and impacts on Tanzania's coastal forests and woodlands. In "Wielding the Ax! " forest history becomes a microcosm of the origins! nature! and demise of colonial rule in East Africa and of the first fitful decades of independence. Zusammenfassung Forests have been at the fault lines of contact between African peasant communities in the Tanzanian coastal hinterland and outsiders for almost two centuries. In recent decades, a global call for biodiversity preservation has been the main challenge to Tanzanians and their forests.Thaddeus
