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HIST0419A-S11

Rdgs African HI: Environmental

Readings in African History: Environmental History of Africa
This seminar will explore the history of human-environmental interaction on the African continent. The course examines how scholars have begun unraveling dominant historical understandings of African landscapes, cultures, and pre-colonial ecologies. A major portion of the course looks at how colonial relations shaped conflicts over environmental control and ecological change and the legacies of such dynamics in the postcolonial era. Readings on gender relations, urban environmental change, and the evolution of development thinking will be the focus of class discussions on new ways of interpreting African social and environmental change. 3 hr. sem.
Course Reference Number (CRN):
22073
Subject Code:
HIST
Course Number:
0419
Section Identifier:
A

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HIST 0419

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Spring 2011

HIST0419A-S11 Seminar (Tropp)