Environing empire : nature, infrastructure, and the making of German Southwest Africa

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Environing empire : nature, infrastructure, and the making of German Southwest Africa

Martin Kalb

(The environment in history international perspectives, v. 23)

Berghahn, 2022

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-296) and indexes

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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.

目次

Figures Acknowledgments Introduction Chapter 1. Currents, Chances, Commodities On the Margins Boiling Giants Clubbing the Wing-footed Shoveling White Gold Chapter 2. Accessing an Arid Land Our Place in the Desert Reaching Southwest Africa Germany's Own Entrance Chapter 3. Harbors, Animals, Trains Technological Marbles Animal Engineering Reaching Inland Chapter 4. Solving Aridity Existing Structures Water Structures Engineering Water Chapter 5. Access and Destruction Supplying War Maintaining Access Fighting People and Nature Chapter 6. Expanding War and Death Drilling Wood Accessing the South Reaching Beyond Chapter 7. Creating a Model Colony Visions of a Model Colony Solving the Water Question Creating a Settler Paradise Conclusion Bibliography Index

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