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GEOGRAPHY, ENVIRONMENT, AND DEMOGRAPHY Gregory Maddox. Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2006. Nature and Human Societies Series, ix + 355 pp. Photographs. Maps. Illustrations. Glossary. Bibliography. Index. $85.00. Cloth.
Gregory Maddox's Sub-Saharan Africa: An Environmental History follows ABC-CLIO's Nature and Human Societies Series dictum and synthesizes "the intertwined fates of humanity and the natural world" on a continent whose natural history has fostered a substantial environmental diversity, and whose human history is the world's longest.
The early chapters recount how African societies adapted to and transformed tropical forests, savannas, highlands, coasdines, and deserts over the course of humanity's evolution dirough die conclusion of the Adantic slave trade. The book's second half brings Africa and Africans into more intimate contact with Europe, the Americas, and Asia, and the final chapter presents three well-chosen case studies that cover landscape histories from the Sahara, the Serengeti savanna, and the forests of southern, eastern, and...