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Title ENVIRONING EMPIRE;NATURE, INFRASTRUCTURE, AND THE MAKING OF GERMAN SOUTHWEST AFRICA (VOLUME 23) [electronic resource].

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NEW YORK : BERGHAHN BOOKS, 2022.

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Series	The Environment in History: International Perspectives
	The Environment in History: International Perspectives.
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.
Subject	Environmental management -- Namibia -- History.
	Nature and civilization -- Namibia.
	Technological innovations -- Environmental aspects -- Namibia.
	Namibia -- History -- 1884-1915.
	Namibia -- Colonization -- Environmental aspects.
	Environnement -- Gestion -- Namibie -- Histoire.
	Nature et civilisation -- Namibie.
	Innovations -- Aspect de l'environnement -- Namibie.
	Namibie -- Histoire -- 1884-1915.
	HISTORY / Africa / West
	History
ISBN	1800732899 (electronic bk.)
	9781800732896 (electronic bk.)
Standard No.	https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800732902
	UKMGB 021077649