Environing Empire: Nature, Infrastructure and the Making of German Southwest Africa

by Martin Kalb

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1805393049
• ISBN13: 9781805393047
• Release Date: March 2024
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 0.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"