Environing Empire Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa
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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Berghahn Books
2022
2022. |
| Series: | Environment in History: International Perspectives
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| See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009792874806719 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (322 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781800732896 9781800734579 |
