- Title
- Forestry in reconstruction South Africa : imperial visions, colonial realities
- Creator
- Bennett, Brett M., Kruger, Frederick J.
- Subject
- Forestry - South Africa - History, Reconstruction - South Africa
- Date
- 2015
- Type
- Article
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10210/55819
- Identifier
- uj:16314
- Identifier
- Citation: Bennett, B.M. & Kruger, F.J. 2015. Forestry in reconstruction South Africa : imperial visions, colonial realities. Britain and the World, 8(2):225–245. DOI: 10.3366/brw.2015.0192
- Identifier
- ISSN:2043-8567
- Description
- Abstract: The British military conquest and political annexation of the former South African Republic (ZAR) and Orange Free State at the end of the South African War/Second Anglo-Boer War (1899–1902) meant that the break-away Boer republics were finally integrated within British South Africa and the wider British Empire, a goal that elites in London had pursued since the British government annexed the fledgling Natalia Republic within the British-controlled Natal Colony in 1843.3 Among a broader suite of reforms, reconstruction officials established government forestry programs in the Transvaal and Orange Free State (renamed the Orange River Colony from 1900–1910...
- Publisher
- Edinburgh University Press
- Language
- English
- Rights
- ©2015, authors
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