Review of: A.A. LaRocco, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana Ohio University Press, 2024, 408 pp., $34.95 (Pb.), ISBN: 9780896803343.

Bernard C. Moore

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Review of: A.A. LaRocco, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana Ohio University Press, 2024, 408 pp., $34.95 (Pb.), ISBN: 9780896803343. - Volume 64

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  title        = {{Review of: A.A. LaRocco, The Nature of Politics: State Building and the Conservation Estate in Postcolonial Botswana Ohio University Press, 2024, 408 pp., $34.95 (Pb.), ISBN: 9780896803343.}},
  author       = {Bernard C. Moore},
  journal      = {Journal of Modern African Studies},
  year         = {2026},
  doi          = {https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x26101268},
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