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Environing empire : nature, infrastructure, and the making of German Southwest Africa / Martin Kalb.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalb, Martin, author.
- Series:
- Environment in history ; v. 23.
- The environment in history: international perspectives ; volume 23
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental management--Namibia--History.
- Environmental management.
- Nature and civilization--Namibia.
- Nature and civilization.
- Technological innovations--Environmental aspects--Namibia.
- Technological innovations.
- Namibia--History--1884-1915.
- Namibia.
- Namibia--Colonization--Environmental aspects.
- Technological innovations--Environmental aspects.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 308 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Berghahn, 2022.
- Summary:
- "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 tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich's everyday violence"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Currents, Chances, Commodities
- On the Margins
- Boiling Giants
- Clubbing the Wing-Footed
- Shoveling White Gold
- ch. 2 Accessing Arid Lands
- Our Place in the Desert
- Reaching Southwest Africa
- Germany's Own Entrance
- ch. 3 Harbors, Animals, Trains
- Technological Marbles
- Animal Engineering
- Reaching Inland
- ch. 4 Solving Aridity
- Existing Structures
- Water Structures
- Engineering Water
- ch. 5 Access and Destruction
- Supplying War
- Maintaining Access
- Fighting Nature and People
- ch. 6 Expanding War and Death
- Drilling Wood
- Accessing the South
- Reaching Beyond
- ch. 7 Creating a Model Colony
- Visions of a Model Colony
- Constructing the Future
- Solving the Water Question
- Creating a Settler Paradise.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Kalb, Martin. Environing empire
- ISBN:
- 9781800732902
- 1800732902
- OCLC:
- 1263285953
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