Since the late 1980s the environmental trope in South African history has been gradually elevated to a field of enquiry in its own right. The impetus to this transformation has been varied, the blossoming of environmental history in the North American academy and green politics and agrarian social history in South Africa being among the more influential.
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Adhikari, Mohammed, Howard Phillips, Liese van der Watt, Ian-Malcolm Rijsdijk, Lance van Sittert, Harriet Deacon, Natasha Erlank, Lindsay Clowes, Nigel Worden, and Vivian Bickford-Smith "Reports on Colloquium Sessions." South African Historical Journal (2004) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21527
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