Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Approaching Kuruman
- 2 Goat People and Fish People on the Agro-Pastoral Frontier, c. 1750–1830
- 3 Intensification and Social Innovation on the Cape Frontier, 1820s–1884
- 4 Colonial Annexation: Land Alienation and Environmental Administration, 1884–1894
- 5 Environmental Trauma, Colonial Rule, and the Failure of Extensive Food Production, 1895–1903
- 6 The Environmental History of a “Labor Reservoir,” 1903–1970s
- 7 Apportioning Water, Dividing Land: Segregation, 1910–1977
- 8 Betterment and the Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: The Environmental Rights of Tribal Subjects, 1940s–1983
- 9 Retrospectives on Socio-Environmental History and Socio-Environmental Justice
- Appendix A South African Census Statistics on Human Population
- Appendix B South African Census Statistics on Stock Population
- Appendix C1 1991 Individual Interviews
- Appendix C2 1997–1998 Individual Interviews
- Appendix C3 1991 and 1997–1998 Group Interviews
- Appendix D A Note on Archival Sources
- Notes
- Index
Appendix D - A Note on Archival Sources
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- 1 Approaching Kuruman
- 2 Goat People and Fish People on the Agro-Pastoral Frontier, c. 1750–1830
- 3 Intensification and Social Innovation on the Cape Frontier, 1820s–1884
- 4 Colonial Annexation: Land Alienation and Environmental Administration, 1884–1894
- 5 Environmental Trauma, Colonial Rule, and the Failure of Extensive Food Production, 1895–1903
- 6 The Environmental History of a “Labor Reservoir,” 1903–1970s
- 7 Apportioning Water, Dividing Land: Segregation, 1910–1977
- 8 Betterment and the Bophuthatswana Donkey Massacre: The Environmental Rights of Tribal Subjects, 1940s–1983
- 9 Retrospectives on Socio-Environmental History and Socio-Environmental Justice
- Appendix A South African Census Statistics on Human Population
- Appendix B South African Census Statistics on Stock Population
- Appendix C1 1991 Individual Interviews
- Appendix C2 1997–1998 Individual Interviews
- Appendix C3 1991 and 1997–1998 Group Interviews
- Appendix D A Note on Archival Sources
- Notes
- Index
Summary
In addition to the oral evidence described in Chapter 1 and published primary and secondary sources, in this research I made extensive use of archival sources. The primary archives where I worked were the Council for World Mission Archive at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), London; the Public Records Office in London (PRO); the Cape Town Archives Repository in Cape Town (CTAR); and the National Archives Repository in Pretoria (NAR). In addition to these, I visited specific collections at the National Archives of Zimbabwe (ZAR) and the University of the Witwatersrand. The small but interesting collection at the Moffat Mission in Kuruman was also helpful.
At SOAS, I read incoming letters from London Missionary Society (LMS) missionaries in Tswana areas from 1815–1910. These letters are not indexed by subject, so I read them page by page. For the first eighty-five years, these letters gave good details about environmental and social aspects of missions among Tswana-speaking people. For the missionaries, the existence of oppressed classes and extensive production were evidence of African depravity, and methods of food production were integral to their conception of themselves and the Christian message. By the 1870s, they made a link between Christianity, imperialism, intensive production, and land tenure, so their commentary on these subjects provided good evidence on the period of imperial annexation. At the turn of the century, missionaries described and expressed concern about rinderpest, violence, and famine.
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- Environment, Power, and InjusticeA South African History, pp. 235 - 238Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2003