Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History

Introduction
A Demographic Review
Agricultural Systems & Settlement Patterns
The Nineteenth-Century Cattle Complex
Wildlife & Ecological Control
The Industrial Supports
Markets & Trading Networks
Breakdown of the Man-Controlled Ecological System
The Causes
The Ecological Collapse
Results & Remedies
Conclusion

"When Helge Kjekshus's Ecology Control and Economic Development in East African History appeared in 1976 it heralded the dawning of a new age of historical research in Africa, in which the role of colonial rule in promoting ecological change would become an increasingly prominent theme." David Anderson, ENVIRONMENTAL HISTORY

"...a founding text in the historiography of the African environment...worthwhile, and further justifies making this influential book available again in an affordable edition." THE INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AFRICAN HISTORICAL STUDIES