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oapen-20.500.12657-584912023-02-01T09:32:48Z Environing Empire Kalb, Martin History Africa West Political Science Colonialism & Post-colonialism Nature bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBJ Regional & national history::HBJH African history bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTQ Colonialism & imperialism bic Book Industry Communication::W Lifestyle, sport & leisure::WN Natural history 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. 2022-09-21T05:33:47Z 2022-09-21T05:33:47Z 2022 book 9781800732896 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/58491 eng application/epub+zip n/a external_content.epub Berghahn Books Berghahn Books 10.3167/9781800732902 10.3167/9781800732902 562fcfcf-0356-4c23-869a-acb39d8c84b5 9781800732896 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) Berghahn Books open access
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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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