Green Colonialism in Zimbabwe, 1890-1980
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Green Colonialism in Zimbabwe, 1890-1980 By Vimbai Kwashirai

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Table of Contents

List of Figures

xi

List of Tables

xiii

Preface

xvii

Acknowledgments

xix

Abbreviations

xxi

Introduction

1

Historical Context

3

Book Outline

4

Chapter 1: Background: Exploitation and Conservation in African Woodland and Forest

9

The Problem of Balance and the Role of Government

14

Colonial Agriculture and Forests

19

Logging

21

Other Demands on Forests

23

The Zambezi Teak Woodland

24

Chapter 2: The Early Colonial Era, 1890–1900

35

Precolonial Population Settlement

35

Multiple Use of Gusu

39

Indigenous Methods of Forest Conservation

53

Chapter 3: Gusu Reservation, Experimentation, and Shifting Cultivation, 900–1910

67

Forests

73

Shifting Cultivation and Exclusion Policy: Boon or Bane?

84