Environing Empire : : Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa / / Martin Kalb.
Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they trie...
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Place / Publishing House: | New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2022] ©2022 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Environment in History: International Perspectives ;
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- CHAPTER 1 Currents, Chances, Commodities
- CHAPTER 2 Accessing Arid Lands
- CHAPTER 3 Harbors, Animals, Trains
- CHAPTER 4 Solving Aridity
- CHAPTER 5 Access and Destruction
- CHAPTER 6 Expanding War and Death
- CHAPTER 7 Creating a Model Colony
- Conclusion
- Selected Bibliography
- Indexes