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Environing Empire : Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kalb, Martin.
- , Knowledge Unlatched, Author.
- Series:
- Environment in History: International Perspectives
- Environment in History: International Perspectives ; v.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.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (322 pages)
- Other Title:
- Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Berghahn Books, Incorporated, 2022.
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Martin Kalb is an Associate Professor of History at Bridgewater College in Virginia. His research on the histories of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte), youth, and environmental history has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes; his monograph Coming of Age: Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973 was published in 2016. Martin Kalb is an Associate Professor of History at Bridgewater College in Virginia. His research on the histories of everyday life (Alltagsgeschichte), youth, and environmental history has appeared in academic journals and edited volumes; his monograph Coming of Age: Constructing and Controlling Youth in Munich, 1942-1973 was published in 2016.
- 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- 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
- Index of Places
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- CC BY-NC-ND
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781800732896
- 1800732899
- 9781800734579
- 1800734573
- OCLC:
- 1302999444
- Access Restriction:
- Open Access Unrestricted online access
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