ENVIRONING EMPIRE;NATURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THE MAKING OF GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA (VOLUME 23).

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Author / Creator:	KALB, MARTIN.
Imprint:	NEW YORK : BERGHAHN BOOKS, 2022.
Description:	1 online resource
Language:	English
Series:	The Environment in History: International Perspectives The Environment in History: International Perspectives.
Subject:	Environmental management -- Namibia -- History. Nature and civilization -- Namibia. Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects -- Namibia. History. Namibia -- History -- 1884-1915. Namibia -- Colonization -- Environmental aspects.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13553518

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ISBN:	1800732899 9781800732896
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.
Standard no.:	https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800732902

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