This work is a detailed chronicle of environmental and social changes that accompanied the introduction of Christianity and establishment of German colonial rule on the slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro and Mount Meru. The book is organized both chronologically and thematically, providing a narrative of colonization and its impact on the landscape [End Page ] and communities of northern German East Africa. The next three chapters consider, in turn, the specific roles of places, plants, and people in the social changes that accompanied colonization, followed by a concluding chapter on the enduring legacy of those changes.
Munson conducted an impressive amount of research, making particularly effective use of German archives, but his ambitious attempt to combine environmental, colonial and mission histories in a single work left some gaps in his scholarship. Perhaps the most significant challenge faced by Munson, as by any scholar of early mission history, is to find enough evidence authored by Africans to give them well-rounded, central roles in the narrative.
For example, there is little consideration of African customary land tenure or opposition to European ownership.
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Nevertheless, this is a meticulously researched and accessibly written examination of a relatively understudied dimension of how northern Tanzania became a thriving center of Lutheranism. Furthermore, the value of the book lies in its interdisciplinary dimension. It brings together history, human ecology, religion, geography, and cultural heritage in the examination of environmental and social changes in northern Tanzania.
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