Review of The Struggle for the Land: Indigenous Insight and Industrial Empire in the Semiarid World

• Main Author: Carter, Sarah
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@University of Nebraska - Lincoln 1992
• Subjects: Other International and Area Studies; saami
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/683; https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/context/greatplainsquarterly/article/1682/viewcontent/Carter_GPQ_1992_Struggle.pdf

The essays in this innovative and significant book look at the effects of European occupation on the people and the environment of semiarid regions on several continents. It is the book's comparative and interdisciplinary approach that makes it particularly original and provocative. Included are the lands of the indigenous people of the North American Plains, the Australian Aborigines, the Kazakhs of what was once the USSR, the Maasai of Kenya, several groups in South Africa, Alaskan, and Lapp (Saami) people. Contributors are from anthropology, economics, English, law, history, religion, Native American studies, and environmental studies and they are John W. Bennett, Anatoly Khazanov, Russel L. Barsh, Gary C. Anders, Robson Silitshena, Peter Iverson, C. Patrick Morris, Annette Hamilton, Solomon Bekure, Ishmael Ole Pasha, J. Baird Callicott, and O. Douglas Schwarz. The book will be of particular value to those studying and teaching comparative contact situations and to those interested in how semiarid regions are linked to worldwide human and economic networks.