This book presents the socio-environmental history of black people around Kuruman, on the edge of the Kalahari in South Africa. Considering successive periods--Tswana agropastoral chiefdoms before colonial contact, the Cape frontier, British colonial rule, Apartheid, and the homeland of Bophuthatswana in the 1980s--Environment, Power and Injustice shows how the human relationship with the environment corresponded to differences of class, gender, and race. While exploring biological, geological, and climatological forces in history, this book argues that the challenges of existence in a semidesert arose more from human injustice than from deficiencies in the natural environment. In fact, powerful people drew strength from and exercised their power over others through the environment. At the same time, the natural world provided marginal peoples with some relief from human injustice. Nancy J. Jacobs is Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of History at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA. She is a recipient of the Alice Hamilton article prize from the American Society for Environmental History.

南希·J.雅各布斯（Nancy J.Jacobs）

美國羅德島普羅維登斯布朗大學曆史和非洲研究學院副教授，在《非洲曆史雜誌》《南部非洲研究雜誌》《環境與曆史》《美國曆史評論》等期刊發錶數篇作品，曾獲美國環境史學會艾麗斯·漢密爾頓奬。

王富銀

南京林業大學副教授，CATTI資深評閱專傢，美國北卡羅來納大學訪問學者，中國英漢語比較研究會會員，中國語用學研究會會員，江蘇省科技翻譯工作者協會會員。主要研究方嚮為翻譯理論與實踐，譯有《經驗主義問題》、Donghai : The Capital of Crystal。