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Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains
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Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains Paperback - 2004

by Conte, C, A

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Ohio University Press, 2004. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,400grams, ISBN:9780821415542
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  • Title Highland Sanctuary: Environmental History in Tanzania’s Usambara Mountains
  • Author Conte, C, A
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 256
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Ohio University Press, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
  • Date 2004
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 9456890
  • ISBN 9780821415542 / 0821415549
  • Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.8 x 6.04 x 0.64 in (22.35 x 15.34 x 1.63 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: African
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004002991
  • Dewey Decimal Code 333.709

From the publisher

CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title

For more than a century, the world has recognized the extraordinary biological diversity of the forests of Tanzania's Usambara Mountains. As international attention has focused on forest conservation, farmers, foresters, biologists, and the Tanzanian state have realized that only complex negotiations will save these treasured, but rapidly disappearing, landscapes.

Highland Sanctuary unravels the complex interactions among agriculture, herding, forestry, the colonial state, and the landscape itself. In his examination of the region's history of ecological transformation, Christopher Conte demonstrates how these forces have combined to create an ever-changing mosaic of forest and field. His study illuminates the debate over conservation, arguing that contingency and chance, the stuff of human history, have shaped forests in ways that rival the power of nature. In Highland Sanctuary, the forest becomes part of human history, rather than something outside of it.

Highland Sanctuary cuts through a legacy of contention and ill will to inform contemporary conservation initiatives. Professor Conte explains how ecological changes take divergent paths in similar environments, in this case on mountains that harbor unique flora and fauna, and how these mountain environments achieve international importance as centers of biodiversity.

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  • Choice, 02/01/2005, Page 1076

About the author

Christopher A. Conte is an associate professor of history at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, where he teaches African and environmental history. He is the author of several articles on ecological change in East Africa's highlands.

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