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Environing Empire

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 trie...

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Hovedforfatter: Kalb, Martin
Format: Online
Sprog:engelsk
Udgivet: Berghahn Books 2022
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History
Africa
West
Political Science
Colonialism & Post-colonialism
Nature
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHH African history
thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHT History: specific events and topics::NHTQ Colonialism and imperialism
thema EDItEUR::W Lifestyle, Hobbies and Leisure::WN Nature and the natural world: general interest
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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.

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