Contents

pp v-vii

List of Maps, Figures & Tables

pp viii-viii

List of Photographs

pp ix-ix

Abbreviations

pp x-x

Contributors

pp xi-xii

Acknowledgements

pp xiii-xiv

Introduction Custodians of the Land: Ecology & Culture in the History of Tanzania

pp 1-14

Part One - Environmental & Demographic Change

pp 15-18

One - Population: A Dependent Variable

pp 19-42

Two - Environment & Population Growth: In Ugogo, Central Tanzania

pp 43-66

Part Two - Environmental Change & Economic History: In Tanzania's Northern Highlands

pp 67-70

Three - Environmental Control & Hunger: In the Mountains & Plains of Northeastern Tanzania

pp 71-95

Four - Nature Reorganized: Ecological History in the Plateau Forests of the West Usambara Mountains 1850-1935

pp 96-122

Part Three - Politics & Environmental Change

pp 123-126

Five - The Precolonial Politics of Disease Control: In the Lowlands of Northeastern Tanzania

pp 127-151

Six - ‘We Don't Want Terraces!’: Protest & Identity under the Uluguru Land Usage Scheme

pp 152-170

Part Four - Environment & Morality

pp 171-174

Seven - Environment, Community & History: ‘Nature in the Mind’ In Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Buha, Western Tanzania

pp 175-199

Eight - Canoe-Building Under Colonialism: Forestry & Food Policies in the Inner Kilombero Valley 1920-40

pp 200-212

Nine - Struggles for the Land: The Political & Moral Economies of Land on Mount meru

pp 213-240

Conclusion

pp 241-254

Bibliography

pp 255-266

Index

pp 267-271