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100 1 $aKalb, Martin,$eauthor.
245 10 $aEnvironing empire :$bnature, infrastructure, and the making of German Southwest Africa /$cMartin Kalb.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBerghahn,$c2022.
264 4 $c©2022
300 $a1 online resource :$billustrations
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337 $acomputer$bc$2rdamedia
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490 1 $aEnvironment in history: international perspectives ;$vvolume 23
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Even leaving aside the vast death and suffering that it wrought on indigenous populations, German ambitions to transform Southwest Africa in the early part of the twentieth century were futile for most. For years colonists wrestled ocean waters, desert landscapes, and widespread aridity as they tried to reach inland in their effort of turning outwardly barren lands into a profitable settler colony. In his innovative environmental history, Martin Kalb outlines the development of the colony up to World War I, deconstructing the common settler narrative, all to reveal the importance of natural forces and the Kaisereich's everyday violence"--$cProvided by publisher
588 0 $aOnline resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2022).
505 0 $aIntro -- 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
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830 0 $aEnvironment in history ;$vv. 23.
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