ISBN:
9781800732902
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 308 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Series Statement:
The environment in history: international perspectives volume 23
Series Statement:
The environment in history
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Kalb, Martin Environing Empire
DDC:
968.8102
Keywords:
Environmental management History
;
Nature and civilization
;
Technological innovations Environmental aspects
;
Namibia History 1884-1915
;
Namibia Colonization
;
Environmental aspects
;
Deutsch-Südwestafrika
;
Natur
;
Umwelt
;
Infrastruktur
;
Kolonialismus
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
