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Author:

Munson, Robert B., 1967- author.

Title:

The nature of Christianity in northern Tanzania : environmental and social change, 1890-1916 / Robert B. Munson.

Publisher:

Lexington Books,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

xv, 378 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Subject:

Cultural landscapes--Tanzania.
Landscape changes--Tanzania.
Plant introduction--Tanzania.
Plants, Cultivated--Tanzania.
Social change--Tanzania.
Kilimanjaro Region (Tanzania)--History.
Meru, Mount (Tanzania)--History.
Tanzania--History--1890-1918.
Germans--Tanzania--History.
Missions, German--Tanzania.
Christianity--Tanzania--19th century.
Christianity--Tanzania--20th century.
Cultural landscapes.
Germans.
Landscape changes.
Missions, German.
Plant introduction.
Plants, Cultivated.
Social change.
Tanzania.
Tanzania--Mount Kilimanjaro Region.
Tanzania--Mount Meru Region.
1890 - 1918
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 329-368) and index.

Contents:

Northern Tanzania and history : places, plants and people -- Precarious beginnings and the end of independence (1891 to 1906) -- Consolidation of the African-European landscape (1907 to March 1916) -- Places : a new ordering -- Plants : the green newcomers -- People : Christianity and botanical proselytization -- A new world in northern Tanzania : beyond 1916 with the places, plants and people.

Summary:

"Explores the relationship between environment and social change on Mt. Kilimanjaro and Mt. Meru during the German colonial period (1890-1916)"--Provided by the publisher.

ISBN:

0739177818 (ebook)
9780739177815 (ebook)
073917780X (cloth : alk. paper)
9780739177808 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)843181073

LCCN:

2013028491

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)