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）

美国罗德岛普罗维登斯布朗大学历史和非洲研究学院副教授，在《非洲历史杂志》《南部非洲研究杂志》《环境与历史》《美国历史评论》等期刊发表数篇作品，曾获美国环境史学会艾丽斯·汉密尔顿奖。

王富银

南京林业大学副教授，CATTI资深评阅专家，美国北卡罗来纳大学访问学者，中国英汉语比较研究会会员，中国语用学研究会会员，江苏省科技翻译工作者协会会员。主要研究方向为翻译理论与实践，译有《经验主义问题》、Donghai : The Capital of Crystal。