Elijah Doro

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Plunder for Profit: A Socio-Environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and ZimbabweHardcover, 13 April 2023

Plunder for Profit: A Socio-Environmental History of Tobacco Farming in Southern Rhodesia and Zimbabwe
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Part of Series
African Studies
Print Length
332 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Date Published
13 Apr 2023
ISBN-10
100909839X
ISBN-13
9781009098397

Description

Exploring over a century of Zimbabwe's colonial and post-colonial history, Elijah Doro investigates the murky and noxious history of that powerful crop: tobacco. In a compelling narrative that debunks previous histories glorifying tobacco farming, Doro reveals the indelible marks that tobacco left on landscapes, communities, and people. Demonstrating that the history of tobacco farming is inseparable from that of colonial encounter, Doro outlines how tobacco became an institutionalised culture of production, which was linked to state power and natural ecosystems, and driven by a pernicious heritage of unbridled plunder. With the destruction of landscapes, the negative impacts of the export trade and the growing tobacco epidemic in Zimbabwe, tobacco farming has a long and varied legacy in southern African and across the world. Connecting the local to the global, and the environmental to the social, this book illuminates our understandings of environmental history, colonialism and sustainability.

Product Details

Author:
Elijah Doro
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
13 April 2023
Dimensions:
22.86 x 15.24 x 1.91 cm
Genre:
African
ISBN-10:
100909839X
ISBN-13:
9781009098397
Language:
English
Location:
Cambridge
Pages:
332
Weight:
612.35 gm

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